Go for no-deal Brexit or face election battle: Farage warns UK PM Johnson

LONDON: Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage offered British Prime Minister Boris Johnson the possibility of an electoral non-aggression pact if he goes for a no-deal European Union (EU) exit, but warned that any Brexit fudge would provoke opposition across the United Kingdom.

"We would put country before party and we would do it every time," Farage said of the scenario in which Johnson goes for a no-deal Brexit but faced an election.

"We would be prepared in those circumstances to help him, to work with him, perhaps, I don't know, in the form of a non-aggression pact at the election," he said.

Farage said an "a clean break Brexit" on October 31 was the most popular option among voters but he questioned whether Johnson could be trusted on Brexit.

The EU Withdrawal Agreement, Farage said, was the worst deal in history even without the Irish border backstop.

Farage said he suspected Johnson would try to get an amended Withdrawal Agreement passed by the British parliament. "There is a better than 50 per cent chance that we'll face a general election in the autumn," Farage said.