Tories and Brexiteers unite!

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Via FT:

Nigel Farage’s Brexit party is considering whether to pull out of hundreds of seats in Britain’s forthcoming general election, in what could prove a game-changer to prime minister Boris Johnson’s hopes of winning a parliamentary majority.

The insurgent party, which supports leaving the EU without a deal, is deciding whether to contest all of Britain’s parliamentary seats — as pledged by Mr Farage when he formed the movement earlier this year — or concentrate its efforts on a much smaller number of targeted constituencies in Brexit-supporting areas.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.