Former Apprentice winner Michelle Dewberry has been announced as a candidate for the Brexit Party in the upcoming election.

Nigel Farage told a crowd of supporters in South Yorkshire that the presenter and businesswoman will run for his party in Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle.

Mr Farage then tore into the Labour party saying its MPs are ‘more concerned about Hoxton than Hull’.

The Brexit Party leader is under pressure to pull hundreds of candidates out of the running before the nomination deadline at 4pm today.

Boris Johnson is said to have made Mr Farage a last ditch offer of a pact in return for running candidates in just 40 seats across the UK.

But the Conservatives denied any such offer was made, with Mr Farage today adding the Tory party would rather risk losing the election than forming a Leave alliance with him.

Speaking on Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning, Mr Farage said: ‘The job of the Brexit Party is to hold him (Boris Johnson) to account, because too many times over the last three years the Conservatives have made promises and not delivered.’

Asked whether he was prepared to stand Brexit Party candidates down in more seats, he said: ‘This all started way back in September when I sent to Number 10 some polling that said that in their 40 key seats, if I endorsed their Conservative candidate, one-third of Labour voters in those seats would vote Conservative on a one-off basis to get a genuine Brexit done.

‘And ever since that time, what I’ve realised is that the Conservatives want a Conservative majority in Parliament, not a Brexit majority in Parliament.’

He added: ‘There are very clearly seats in which we are the lead challenger and their are other seats in which they are the lead challenger to Labour, and we could have done a deal on that basis, but the priority for the Conservative Party, they do not want the Brexit Party to get seats in Parliament.

‘They’d rather risk not winning the election than having a Leave majority, a Leave alliance.’

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