The Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme this morning that he will not be standing in the general election.

He said he had been thinking “very hard” about this: “Do I fight a seat? Try to get myself into parliament. Or do I serve the cause better traversing the length and breadth of the United Kingdom supporting 600 candidates, and I’ve decided the latter course is the right one … It’s very difficult to do both. It’s very difficult to be in a constituency every day and at the same time to be out across the United Kingdom.”

Farage has stood for Parliament on seven separate occasions and failed every time.

He also revealed in an interview with the Sunday Times that he had twice been offered a peerage in an attempt to get him to stand down Brexit Party candidates who are making things difficult for the Conservatives.

On Friday, the Brexit Party launched its election campaign saying that it would stand candidates in all constituencies unless Boris Johnson scrapped the deal with the EU.

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