An audit by the Daily Mail found Boris Johnson could miss out in almost 90 battleground constituencies if the pro-Brexit vote is split between the Tories and the Brexit Party.

Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly has immediately rejected a fresh appeal from Nigel Farage to form a general election Leave Alliance.

LEO MCKINSTRY: Oscar Wilde famously wrote that 'each man kills the thing he loves'. Yesterday, we witnessed Nigel Farage start doing just that.

Arron Banks, who campaigned with Mr Farage as part of Leave.EU during the 2016 referendum, said that the Brexit Party leader was risking the entire project by splitting the Tory vote.

At a glitzy election launch in Westminster, Nigel Farage vowed to take on the 'two tribes' of the Conservatives and Labour who had forgotten what they promisd in the 2016 referendum.

Steve Baker, chairman of the European Research Group (ERG), said Nigel Farage could end up creating a 'weak and indecisive' hung Parliament if he fields 600 Brexit Party candidates.

It surged four per cent in a new YouGov survey of voting intentions. Boris Johnson's Tories were down one per cent at 38 per cent, while Labour had lost two per cent in falling to just 25 per cent.

The list comes after Collins Dictionary named Brexit its word of the year for 2016. A Collins language consultant said that Brexit had been 'quite generous in its gifts to the English language'.

Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice today announced he will contest the 2019 general election as he revealed he will stand in the pro-Leave seat of Hartlepool.

Senior allies of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have held secret last-minute talks to strike a deal that would stop the Brexit Party splitting the Tory vote and letting Jeremy Corbyn into No 10.

ARRON BANKS: The millions of voters praying that we will finally leave the European Union can be forgiven if they feel concerned. They have every right to be.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said he will have candidates in more than 600 constituencies unless Boris Johnson agrees to go for a No Deal Brexit.

Nigel Farage will today formally launch the Brexit Party's general election campaign after another of his candidates decided to step down to avoid splitting the Leave vote.

Dr Graham Cushway, the candidate for Brighton Kemptown, has faced calls to quit after he was revealed as the bassist of a band who dress up as 'undead Luftwaffe pilots'.

Brexit Party candidates have been deluged with thousands of emails from Daily Mail readers urging them to stand down.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Farage now accepts that the only way we're going to escape the suffocating embrace of the European Union is by electing a Conservative government led by Boris Johnson.

A furious Brexit Party MEP has revealed she will not vote at the general election after Nigel Farage decided to stand aside in 317 seats on December 12 to give the Tories a clear run.

Sir John Curtice, a professor at Strathclyde University, said the election is a 'binary choice' between Boris Johnson and his Brexit deal or a second referendum under Jeremy Corbyn.

It came after police revealed they were assessing two allegations of electoral fraud after claims the Tories offered peerages in return for standing down.

Mr Farage stood down candidates contesting Tory-held constituencies but continues to take the battle to Jeremy Corbyn ahead of the December 12 general election.

The campaigners said the entire fee, which will increase by £50,000 each day, would be donated to the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants as a further swipe at the right-wing leader.

The Conservative Party's election manifesto flatly ruled out delaying the formal end of the implementation phase.

The Brexit Party leader made the claim as he sat down for a prime-time television grilling with the BBC's Andrew Neil on a day of drama that sawe four of his MEPs dramatically quit.

HENRY DEEDES: Nigel Farage loves a pint of Greene King India Pale Ale but his Brexit Party has reached the point of last orders. All signs suggest humiliation for Farage's party.

Nigel Farage (pictured today), who intends to spoil his own ballot paper, savaged Boris Johnson's 'oven-ready' Brexit deal and claimed it will give the UK 'many long years of indigestion' and 'agony'.

Brexit Party voters could 'throw away Brexit for ever' unless they vote Tories, a YouGov poll shows. Nigel Farage's party is expected to help Labour keep 26 seats and will split vote in key marginals.

The pro-Brexit vote was split in seats such as Doncaster North, where former Labour leader Ed Miliband limped home with 38.7 per cent of the vote. Pictured: Nigel Farage on TV last night.

The Brexit Party leader and former House of Commons speaker enjoyed a witty exchange on Sky News this evening as results flooded in from across the country.

Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party, is planning an event in Parliament Square on January 31 to mark the UK's exit from the EU. Up to 10,000 Leave supporters are expected at the event.

Nigel Farage today said he will be mothballing the Brexit Party so that he can bring it back if Boris Johnson makes a 'mess' of the UK's departure from the European Union.

Nigel Farage today said he will miss being the European Union's 'pantomime villain' as he predicted the UK's departure from the bloc will herald its demise.

With just two days to go before the UK is finally due to leave the EU, MEPs in Brussels are due to ratify Boris Johnson's Withdrawal Agreement in a highly symbolic moment.

The Brexit Party leader claimed the 'Establishment' had done everything it possibly could to make the event in Parliament Square a 'damp squib'.

The arch-Brexiteer whipped up jubilant crowds in London's Parliament Square on Friday night moments before the historic divorce from the bloc.

Farage took to Twitter to voice his triumph after Britain left the European Union last night. In a speech to jubilant crowds last night he said: 'The people have beaten the establishment.'

DAN HODGES: Conservative MP Steve Baker is issuing mature pleas for reconciliation, while Remainer Alastair Campbell rages against politically incorrect coinage.

David Shipley from Buckinghamshire, was today sentenced to three years and nine months imprisonment and disqualified from being a director for seven years.

The statistics, taken from over 2,000 adults in the UK by a Christian website, found that from last year's events, people prayed most often over the Australian wildfires (18 per cent).

From commemorative 50p coins to predicted increases in the value of the average home, here's how our lives will change when Britain leaves the European Union on January 31.

Jeremy Corbyn has tabled an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill that would extend the transition period until 2023 in the absence of a comprehensive agreement.

Samuel Naylor, 37, wrongly described Mr Corbyn as leader of the Liberal Democrats and also called for an end to leaflets being delivered to his home in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.

Labour leadership hopeful Jess Phillips has backtracked after she suggested she would campaign to take the UK back into the European Union if she takes over from Jeremy Corbyn.

Tony Blair today said the UK must 'make the best of' Brexit as he blamed Jeremy Corbyn and the 'mind-boggling ineptitude' of the Labour leadership for facilitating Britain's split from Brussels.

Lisa Nandy tonight blasted Sir Keir Starmer and labelled his Brexit policy a 'disaster' as she tried to salvage her Labour leadership campaign.

Mr Farage told a rally in Birmingham that his new party was 'not a protest movement' as he unveiled the party's first 100 candidates to stand at any snap general election.

Analysis of the first page of Google searches for 5,000 Brexit related keywords and phrases show the Guardian, the BBC and the Independent show up most prominently in the results.

Labour leadership contender Owen Smith has warned he will use parliament to try to block us from leaving the EU if he takes charge of the party.

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Tom Watson has launched a Labour Remain website and is urging activists to put pressure on Mr Corbyn by signing a declaration stating the party must now 'fight, fight and fight again to keep Britain in the EU'.

Darren Grimes, 25, was fined for declaring that spending by BeLeave was separate form the main Vote Leave campaign. He has raised £90,000 to pay for an appeal and is citing 'errors of fact'.