The Brexit party will not contest
the 317 seats
the Conservatives won
at the last election.
But ... What we will do is concentrate
our total effort into all of the seats
that are held by the Labour party,
who have completely broken
their manifesto pledge in 2017
to respect the result of the referendum.
And we will also take on
the rest of the remainer parties.
We will stand up
and we will fight them all.
So we're not going to fight 600 seats ...
[Applause]
Well, I have to say I'm pleased
you like it.
It's not easy.
It's not easy but how do we hold
Boris to his promises?
That's the key to this, isn't it?
I have got no great love for
the Conservative party at all
but I can see right now
that by giving Boris half a chance,
by keeping him honest
and holding him to account
by getting people in
and by stopping the fanatics
in the Liberal Democrats who'd sign us
up for everything, wouldn't they?
United States of Europe, European Army,
you name it.
I mean, they even want to revoke
the result of the referendum.
No, I think our action,
this announcement today
prevents a second referendum
from happening
and that, to me, I think right now,
is the single most important thing
in our country.
[Applause/cheering]
So in a sense we now have
a leave alliance.
It's just that we've done it
unilaterally. [Laughter]
We've decided ourselves
that we absolutely have to put
country before party and take
the fight to Labour.
Thank you very much indeed
everybody. Thank you.
