The Brexit Party leader has recently stood down 317 candidates in the UK to allow Conservatives to claim the seats. Mr Farage said he feared a hung Parliament if all 600 candidates stood. But he is continuing to fight for seats in Parliament to get Brexit done and “hold Boris Johnson to account”.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mr Farage said: “I am spending my time touring the country.

“If I spend my time hunkered down on one seat I could not do that.

“As I saw in South Thanet a few years ago, there are now electoral rules, there’s no law, I would finish up with hundreds of thousands of pounds spent against me.

“I’d have to spend my whole time there.

“Today I’ll be in Hull, this afternoon I’ll be in Grimsby, tomorrow I’ll be in West Midlands.

“I’m going to go out around the country saying to Labour voters you have been let down badly by the Labour Party who now want you to vote again and saying to Conservative voters in seats the Tories have never won in 100 years.

“Your best chance of getting Brexit is to get us in there and hold Boris Johnson to account.

“Ultimately this election will be decided by tactical voting decisions all across the country.”

His comments come as the Prime Minister put an offer on the table for Nigel Farage, saying the Tories would stand “paper candidates” in 40 Labour-held seats to increase the Brexit Party’s chances to seize them from Jeremy Corbyn.

The plan would mean candidates standing in those constituencies would have limited resources behind them and campaigning would be kept to a minimum.

But Mr Farage slapped down the offer and refused to budge from his demand that the Tories stand down every candidates in those seats.

Mr Farage told The Daily Telegraph: “I would have stood down in lots of key marginals in return for a few on the other side.

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“I would not have even asked for 40 [seats].

“There would have been a guaranteed Leave majority in Parliament and they refused to do it.

“It is completely maddening. I said to them, ‘I can win you the general election now’, and they chose not to take that option.”

The deadline for nominations for candidates standing in the general election is 4pm today.

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