Farage’s decision sends a signal to Leave voters in marginal seats: vote Conservative

His shift on candidates now acknowledges that a hung Parliament would be a bad thing. It follows that pro-Brexit voters in tight contests should back the Tories.

WATCH: “The Brexit Party will not contest the 317 seats the Conservatives won at the last election”

Farage says that he decided yesterday not to risk strengthening the pro-Remain presence in the next Parliament.

Vox pub in West Bromwich: “I will definitely vote for Boris, liar, cheat and fool!”

These West Midlands voters in Tom Watson’s seat care deeply about Brexit and see the Prime Minister as their champion.

Farage’s greed is Johnson’s opportunity. Why Conservatives should rejoice at the absence of a pact.

The two parties have different Brexit policies, and it would therefore be impossible for them to project a united appeal.

WATCH: Farage’s ultimatum – drop the deal or the Brexit Party contest hundreds of seats

He says his party is open to a ‘Leave Alliance’, but will go it alone if Johnson continues to rebuff their advances.

Iain Dale: If Johnson loses, we’ll have a fourth Conservative leader in five years. Goodness knows who that would be.

Plus: Groundhog Day for the NHS. Farage is the dog that hasn’t barked. I will miss Morgan. And: Off to Liverpool.

Alex Hall: Why the Conservatives shouldn’t enter into an election pact with the Brexit Party

And what of our voters who would be repelled by a pact with it? I can see the Lib/Lab slogan already: “Vote Blue, get Farage”.

The case for and against seeking a general election this year

ConservativeHome is very dubious that, assuming a poll is deliverable, the Party can win a healthy majority without already having delivered Brexit.

WATCH: Farage – “It is nothing more than Brexit in name only”

‘This is a rotten deal….If Boris Johnson had presented this six months ago, the ERG would have voted against it’ says Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage

Will Johnson get a Brexit deal done after all?

Plus: Could the Brexit Party get a free run from the Conservatives in 50 seats? Welcome, Chris Mason. And: my weekend.

David Gauke: We won’t leave the EU on October 31st – and Johnson will be blamed

You might blame Parliament for the fact that the Prime Minister will have broken his promise but Parliament didn’t force him to make that promise.

Lord Ashcroft: What my new poll of 8000 voters tells us about the country, the parties – and Brexit

It sets the scene as the Conservative Conference opens by showing what the voters themselves make of the unfolding drama.

David Gauke: The three Brexit policy options from which the Prime Minister must now choose

I still want to avoid a second referendum. But unless we can make progress towards Parliament supporting a deal, those calls are going to grow.

“The landing zone”

How the pro-Leave Spartans, not pro-Remain or pro-Soft Brexit Tories, could end up whipless – and barred from contesting a general election as Conservatives.

Interview. McLoughlin – Hunt’s former campaign Chairman, lifelong One Nation Tory – backs Johnson’s suspensions

The former Party Chairman and Chief Whip says the only way to save moderate conservatism is to get Brexit through.