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  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.
  
  Pollsters have cautioned that if the Brexit party runs a full slate of candidates, Mr Farage could split the Leave vote in scores of marginal seats, undermining Mr Johnson’s pro-Brexit Conservative party and potentially handing victory to pro-Remain candidates from Labour or the Liberal Democrats. But if the Brexit party narrows its focus to Leave-supporting seats currently represented by Labour MPs, it could significantly help the Tories.

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