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Nigel Farage has stepped up his attacks on the Conservative party as it was claimed that senior Brexit party figures – including Ann Widdecombe – had been offered post-election roles or peerages as part of an attempt to get him to stand down more candidates at the general election.

Widdecombe, the party’s candidate in Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, was told she would be part of the government’s post-election Brexit negotiating team if she stood down, according to senior Brexit party officials.

Widdecombe, a former Tory minister, is a Brexit party MEP. Mike Greene, its candidate in Peterborough, had been offered a government education role, party officials said.

Earlier on Thursday Farage said some offers had come from Boris Johnson’s chief strategic adviser, Sir Edward Lister.

In a stinging tweet, he wrote: “The system is corrupt and broken.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ty-in-election