Nigel Farage has hinted the Brexit Party will not stand candidates in every seat at a snap general election - even if Boris Johnson campaigns on a pledge to deliver his divorce deal.
Mr Farage is ardently opposed to the Prime Minister’s agreement with the EU because he believes it would leave the UK too closely linked to the bloc.
The Brexit Party leader has repeatedly offered Mr Johnson an electoral pact if the PM changed tack and backed a No Deal ‘clean break’ departure.
But with Mr Johnson seemingly set on fighting a pre-Christmas election on a vow to implement the deal he has struck with Brussels the stage is set for a showdown at the ballot box between the Tories and the Brexit Party.
If the two parties do not agree to a pact then they could take vital votes away from each other in key constituencies and allow a pro-EU party to come through the middle and win. That could scupper Mr Johnson's hopes of winning a majority.
However, today Mr Farage suggested that even if Mr Johnson pushes ahead with his plan the Brexit Party may not contest every seat.
Asked by MailOnline if the Brexit Party will stand candidates in every constituency if Mr Johnson asks voters to back his new deal, Mr Farage said: ‘We will discuss that over the next couple of days.’
MailOnline understands that the Brexit Party currently has just over 450 candidates in place for the next election with more to come.
But with an election now probably just a matter of weeks away it looks increasingly unlikely that the party will be able to field a full slate of candidates to contest all 650 constituencies across the UK.
It came as pro-Brexit campaigners told Mr Farage and Mr Johnson to ‘get their sh** together’ and agree an election pact to avoid splitting the Leave vote at a forthcoming snap poll.
Mr Johnson will try for a fourth time today to force an early election which, if successful, will see the nation go to the ballot box in December.
Mr Farage said voters would have a 'series of choices' to make when the nation goes to the ballot box.
‘They can vote for a party that wants to revoke, they can vote for a party that wants to have a second referendum, they can vote for a party that wants a new EU treaty or they can vote for a party which wants a clean break,' he told MailOnline.
‘So it is going to be a full menu.’
Mr Farage did not rule out the possibility of last-ditch talks with the Tories to try to strike an election pact but he appeared to be downbeat on the prospect.
He said: 'I just don’t know but I think if he [Mr Johnson] is going to fight the general election on the basis of that treaty then I think as a Leaver it is very difficult.’
He added: ‘We will see what happens. I am not ruling anything in, not ruling anything out.
'But it would appear he wants to fight the election on the basis of that treaty which I just don’t think is Brexit. But that may change.’
Richard Tice, the chairman of the Brexit Party, told the BBC this morning that the 'generous offer' of a pact with the Tories was still on the table.
He said his preference was for there to be a 'Leave alliance' but that the Brexit Party will not let the Tories 'sell this country down the river with a really bad deal'.
