Nigel Farage has doubled down on his claims that his Brexit Party candidates were offered all manner of rewards if they stood down before the upcoming general election.
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The Brexit Party leader, Nigel Farage has reasserted his claims that his candidates for the General Election were offered inducements by Conservative Party bosses of jobs and peerages, if they agreed to stand aside in favour of Tory candidates.
According to the Guardian, telephone calls did take place, but the Tories are saying no offers of jobs or peerages were made.
And talking to the Sky News Sophy Ridge programme, the Tory Security Minister Brandon Lewis said:
"No one has been offered jobs or anything like that. There have been no job offers, we have done no deals with anybody."
But speaking to Pienaar's Politics on the BBC, Nigel Farage said:
"Is he calling Ann Widdecombe a liar? Perhaps he is, I don’t know. Ann Widdecombe made it perfectly clear she received two phone calls, from a senior official in No 10, offering her a job on the negotiating team, if she stood down as an election candidate. Fact."
And he went on to say that Ann Widdecombe was a very honest woman, something he said nobody would disagree with.
Then he added that the PM's senior adviser, Eddie Lister, had phoned up The Brexit Party's candidate for Peterborough and offered him a job in higher education, if he stood aside.
"....there was actually a package put toget..
