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muriel_volestrangler

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2. Johnson says no
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 02:38 PM
Nov 2019
In response the prime minister flatly rejected the idea of any electoral pact on Friday evening, saying a vote for any other party risked a Labour victory on 12 December.

“The advantage of our deal is it’s oven-ready, it’s there to go, you put it in, come back in the middle of December, and we get it done and Brexit is over the line,” he told the BBC.

Pressed about whether he would be prepared to strike any kind of deal with Farage, he said: “Now the difficulty about doing deals with any other party is that any other party, I’m afraid, simply risks putting Jeremy Corbyn into No 10.”
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Elections analyst Chris Hanretty, professor of politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, said: “It’s really quite straightforward – where the Brexit party stand they hurt the Conservatives much more than they hurt Labour.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/01/farage-to-johnson-join-forces-or-brexit-party-will-contest-every-seat

An oven-ready turkey?

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