Nigel Farage has claimed that the Conservatives offered him a peerage on two occasions in a bid to stop the Brexit Party running against them.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, the Brexit Party leader accused the Tories of trying to "buy" his support.
And he claimed that a senior Brexit Party official as well as an MEP had been approached about standing as Conservative candidates.
Mr Farage said: "All sorts of baubles have been offered."
On the peerage offer, the former Ukip leader added: "That happened twice, but we are going back a couple of months. They thought the deal was that if I accepted that, we would only fight a few seats.
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