Nigel Farage has claimed that he was twice offered a peerage and that a senior colleague was offered a safe Tory seat in a bid to persuade the Brexit Party not to run against the Conservatives in the general election.

In an interview over lunch with The Sunday Times, the Brexit Party leader said the Conservatives had tried to “buy” his backing with “Christmas baubles” but added: “We won’t be bought.”

The claims emerged after Farage on Friday issued Boris Johnson with an ultimatum: his party will have candidates standing in every constituency in Britain unless the prime minister ditches his deal with Brussels and agrees to leave the EU on World Trade Organisation terms after the election on December 12. [...]

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