Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team If Boris Johnson doesn’t shift, I’ll ‘unleash 600 candidates to take votes from Tories and Labour’ says Nigel Farage… Nigel Farage spent the day in South Wales. In Labour heartlands where he thinks Jeremy Corbyn has “betrayed” traditional Labour voters who backed Leave in 2016. The audience at a rally in a village hall in Pontypool gave him a standing ovation as he laid into the Brexit deal that Boris Johnson has re-negotiated. “If he wins a majority on this ticket, all we do is go on into three more years of agonising negotiations,” Mr Farage told the crowd of supporters. In his tried and tested campaign speech that he delivers almost word for word at every event, Nigel Farage likes to compare the Prime Minister to a second-hand car salesman not allowing a customer to look under the “bonnet” of the Brexit deal. The Brexit Party leader’s last rally of the week was held at a conference centre in Newport. There he urged Boris Johnson to “toughen up” the Brexit deal the Prime Minister has re-negotiated. – ITV News …as he faces calls to stand down as backers warn that the Brexit Party could hand power to Remainers… Nigel Farage is facing mounting pressure to stand down his candidates ahead of next month’s General Election. The Brexit Party supremo has been hit with a warning shot that Britain could end up with a “shabby coalition of socialists, Lib Dems, Scottish and Welsh nationalists” if he contests seats the Tories are vying for. It comes just a day after yet another of his candidates quit with a parting shot – saying it is “fundamentally wrong” to stand in constituencies where the Tories have a chance of winning. Peter Udale, the party’s nominee in the Cotswolds, urged voters to back the Conservatives instead. – The Sun …as the latest polling suggests the Conservatives could win a 96-seat majority Boris Johnson is on course to win an overall majority of 96, polling suggests, as Labour has fallen behind the Tories in all but two English regions. Analysis of opinion polls over the past fortnight by Electoral Calculus shows the Conservatives on course to win 373 seats, with Labour on 182, the Liberal Democrats on 25 and SNP on 48. It shows the Conservatives up three per cent on last week to 38.2 per cent with Nigel Farage’s Brexit party falling to 10.2 per cent with no seats. It suggests the Prime Minister is so far holding Mr Farage at bay and maintaining a unified Brexit vote. Labour is up by just under two points to 27.2 per cent at the expense of the Liberal Democrats who are down to 15.9 per cent, although the sampling of 15,917 voters does not include response to the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and resignation of deputy leader Tom Watson. – Telegraph (£) Boris Johnson accused of misleading the public over his Brexit deal in Northern Ireland Boris Johnson has been accused of misleading the public about his own Brexit deal, after footage emerged of him telling exporters in Northern Ireland they will not need to fill in extra paperwork. After a rocky start to the general election campaign in which Jacob Rees-Mogg had to apologise for his comments about victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Welsh secretary, Alun Cairns, resigned, footage emerged of the prime minister regaling businesses with the benefits of his deal. The video, shot on Thursday night in Northern Ireland, showed him reassuring worried exporters they will not have to fill in customs declarations when they send goods across the Irish Sea. In answer to a question from an exporter about whether his business would have to complete extra forms, Johnson said: “You will absolutely not.” – Guardian PM suggests goods checks from Northern Ireland to Britain will not be enforced – Independent Johnson’s Brexit deal will hit growth, claims Bank of England The Bank of England has downgraded UK growth on the back of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. After three years the economy will be about £14 billion smaller than previously thought as a direct result of the government’s proposed withdrawal agreement and free trade deal. The downgrade emerged as two Bank policymakers broke ranks and voted to cut rates this month, citing “downside risks from persistent Brexit uncertainties”. Rates were held at 0.75 per cent after the other seven members of the monetary policy committee voted for no change. Markets now expect a rate cut early next year, however. – The Times (£) Labour secretly plans to have two leaders if Jeremy Corbyn loses the election – one for Brexit and one against… Labour has drawn up secret plans to appoint two co-leaders when Jeremy Corbyn stands down, it emerged last night. The plan would involve an MP from a pro-Remain area of the country and another from a Leave-voting area taking over in a job-share. It is seen as a way of uniting a party torn apart over Brexit and is backed by senior Labour figures. But Tories mocked the plan and warned that the role of leading one of Britain’s two major parties was too important to become a job-share. – The Sun …while more than 50 Labour candidates pledge to back Remain as Corbyn leaves voters in the dark More than 50 Labour candidates have signed a pledge to back remain in a new referendum after Jeremy Corbyn said voters would be left in the dark on how the party would campaign until spring. Prominent pro-EU MPs seeking re-election such as David Lammy and Margaret Beckett underlined their commitment to fighting to stay in the EU, with more signatures expected ahead of the election on 12 December. If elected, Labour will seek to negotiate a new Brexit deal with greater protections for workers, before putting that deal to the public in a Final Say referendum. – Independent Voting for the Lib Dems will get you Brexit, Labour tells Remain supporters Labour is targeting voters in key marginal seats with Facebook adverts that warn that switching to the Liberal Democrats will end up causing Brexit. Jeremy Corbyn’s party is using the ads to encourage tactical voting against the Tories, amid a row in Westminster about the best way to maximise opposition to Boris Johnson. The move comes after criticism of tactical voting websites for recommending voters back the Lib Dems in tight Labour-Tory races. Labour supporters on social media claimed that the advice might hand the seats to Tories by splitting the Remain vote – making Brexit more likely. – Independent Home Office minister refuses to say if immigration will be lower after Brexit, despite Leave referendum pledge A Home Office minister has refused to say if immigration will be lower after Brexit and admitted the Conservatives do not yet have a policy. In an excruciating exchange, Victoria Atkins failed – four times – to answer the question, despite cutting the numbers of migrants being a central pledge of the Vote Leave referendum campaign. Asked if the Tories wanted immigration to be higher or lower than it is now, she said: “We want to have immigration that suits the needs of the country.” Pressed again, Ms Atkins – who stood in for Priti Patel, the home secretary, who declined the interview – said only that immigration was “one of the key issues that’s raised on the doorstep”. – Independent Robert Ford and Philip Cowley: Has Brexit really divided Britain? The other day one of us heard the claim — made entirely seriously — that there were no Leave voters in Scotland. It went completely unchallenged by everyone else in the conversation, most of them Scots, yet it clearly said much more about the person making the statement, and the nature of a worryingly large amount of our political conversations, than it does about Scotland, where some 38% voted Leave. Indeed, if you look at the overall figures for the electorate in Scotland, and include those who didn’t vote in 2016 — a group that is perennially ignored in this sort of discussion — you find that 42% of adult Scots voted to Remain, another 26% voted to Leave, and 33% didn’t vote at all. – Robert Ford and Philip Cowley for Unherd Christopher Hope: The Bad Boys of Brexit fall out as Nigel Farage ditched in favour of Tories The ‘Bad Boys of Brexit’ are no more after Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore parted company with Nigel Farage and started working with the Tories to help deliver Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, The Telegraph can disclose. The trio spent 2016 campaigning for first Brexit and then Donald Trump and wrote a diary of their year titled ‘The Bad Boys of Brexit’. But now it seems that they have fallen out over how to deliver the result of that referendum at the Dec 12 election. Mr Banks, an insurance tycoon, and his aide Mr Wigmore support Mr Johnson’s Brexit deal and want to help deliver it; Mr Farage does not. The three men had started to fall out two weeks ago when Mr Banks and Mr Wigmore urged Tory MPs to vote for Mr Johnson’s Brexit deal in Parliament. Mr Farage, who does not regard the deal as a proper Brexit, strongly disagreed. – Christopher Hope for the Telegraph (£) Matthew Patten: Three reasons why Nigel Farage is right not to be convinced by Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal Sign into any website these days and almost the first thing you have to do is accept the privacy policy and cookie settings. Like me, I suspect that few of us have every bothered to read the policy or check the settings, we just hit the accept tab and get on with it. But some things are just too important to ignore the small print. Boris Johnson’s withdrawal treaty being a case in point. I’ve been lucky enough to work with both the Prime Minister when he was Mayor of London and Nigel Farage as Leader of the Brexit Party. Both are the most gifted communicators of our time. Their dispute about what Brexit really means and the best way to deliver it is at the heart of the General Election. – Matthew Patten MEP for the Telegraph (£) Caroline Ffiske: Now Leavers must focus on seats where Farage can win In the coming election, it is, of course, up to the Brexit Party to decide its strategy. However, as Brexiteers and Leavers we, the voters, can also decide ours. Over the last few months there has been much talk of a ‘People’s Leave Alliance’ bringing Leavers together – whether they support the Conservative Party or the Brexit Party – to maximise the chances of a Leave-supporting majority parliament after December 12. I wrote about this idea, #LeaveAlliance, here for TCW. Then this week we learned that the Lib Dems, the Greens and Plaid Cymru have pipped us at the post. They are not just thinking the same way, but have signed off a ‘Unite to Remain’ Alliance that will impact 60 seats. – Caroline Ffiske for the Conservative Woman Brexit in Brief When it comes to the Lib Dems and lying, it’s go big or go home – Tom Harwood for the Telegraph (£) My focus groups in three heavily remain-voting Liberal Democrat targets – Lord Ashcroft for ConservativeHome Brexit Party urged to drop election candidate over involvement with Luftwaffe-themed band – PoliticsHome