They were the secret negotiations between Nigel Farage's Brexit Party and shadowy Tory fixer Dougie Smith which sowed the seeds of the disaster facing Rishi Sunak.
They were the secret negotiations between Nigel Farage 's Brexit Party and shadowy Tory fixer Dougie Smith which sowed the seeds of the disaster facing Rishi Sunak .
READ MORE: Row as Rishi Sunak lines up ex-Brexit negotiator Tim Barrow to be US ambassador in blow to Trump ally Nigel Farage - while Labour are furious at being unable to appoint their own choice if they win the election A knighthood was dangled for Farage - because he had already said he wouldn’t accept a place in the Lords - along with peerages for Mr Tice and selected Brexit MEPs if Mr Farage agreed to a public photo-op on the Tuesday declaring his support for Boris.
Allies of Mr Johnson stress that the former prime minister ‘knew nothing’ about the meeting with Mr Smith, the offer of peerages or any other inducements. But this time, a pre-election deal seems unlikely: Mr Tice has described the notion as ‘absolute b******s’, with the only negotiations being conducted with individual Tory MPs to discuss their possible defections.'I mean, there wasn’t much trust then - but there is absolutely none now, We agreed to it then because we hated the idea of a"rainbow alliance" Government of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour, the SNP and the Liberal Democrats which would frustrate Brexit.
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