Have you, your party, or anyone associated
with your campaign promised Farage, Nigel
Farage, a peerage for stepping down
some of his electoral candidates?
– Nein, nein. What is this nonsense?
I know, this is on the front page
of the Daily Telegraph, isn't it?
– There we go. I have the evidence for
you.
Normally, they're on your side because
you were in their pay.
– Normally, I'm absolutely unimpeachable.
– It talks about corruption at the worst
level.
He says he's been offered eight peerages
as incentives to what he likened
to living in Venezuela.
[Boris Johnson laughs]
Many thousands of phone calls have
been made to the party's candidates,
remaining 300 candidates who are
still standing, so you're saying
no calls have been made from anyone
in Conservative party central command
to the Brexit Party?
– Look, I mean, that would be a big thing
for me to investigate.
I'm sure that there are conversations taking
place between politicians of all parties
but certainly nobody's been offered a peerage,
I can tell you that.
– Right. Well, we'll take you at your word.
And just so you understand Rachel,
the Conservative party doesn't do deals of
this kind.
It's just not the way we operate.
– Well, it's a choice. It's a choice for our
listeners and our viewers this morning.
Who do we believe? Boris Johnson or Nigel
Farage?
A bit of a dilemma for some.
– All I can tell you is that we don't do
deals
and I think that will be pretty obvious
from what has happened, actually.
That we've made no undertakings.
