Brexit Party ‘won’t stand in 317 Tory seats’ – does it make Johnson win likelier?

As political U-turns go – this was pretty spectacular.

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Just days after declaring his Brexit Party would run in every seat in the country – today Nigel Farage declared they wouldn’t. In fact, they won’t be standing in any of the 317 seats the Conservatives won last time around, in what Mr Farage described as a “unilateral Leave alliance”. Boris Johnson welcomed the move – but where does it leave the pro-Brexit vote in some of the Tories key target seats?

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