The Brexit Party leader emailed supporters yesterday to tell them the party would have “a big challenge on our hands to clear out the Remainer Parliament and win a majority for Brexit”. This suggests the party will not put up candidates against Conservative Eurosceptics. But this may still not be enough to give Prime Minister Boris Johnson a majority.

Mr Farage originally said he would field members in all 650 seats.

But it was reported on Wednesday that he may cut this down to only a few dozen.

This comes after Mr Johnson blamed his failure to live up to his “do or die” promise to deliver Brexit on Halloween on the Labour leader Corbyn.

Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn are also hitting the General Election campaign trail today in the run-up to the pre-Christmas election.

After previously pledging that he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than extend Brexit beyond October 31, Mr Johnson will use election visits to claim it was Mr Corbyn’s fault the UK’s withdrawal from the EU had been put back until January 31.

He is due to say: “Today should have been the day that Brexit was delivered and we finally left the EU.

“But, despite the great new deal I agreed with the EU, Jeremy Corbyn refused to allow that to happen – insisting upon more dither, more delay and more uncertainty for families and business.”

Meanwhile, Mr Corbyn will hit out at the “tax dodgers, bad bosses, big polluters, and billionaire-owned media holding our country back”.

Mr Corbyn will use the speech in London to “call out” people like the media baron Rupert Murdoch, and the Duke of Westminster.

He will say that “the elite” are scared of the British people, which is why “they’ll throw everything” at Labour in the upcoming election.

Mr Corbyn will say: “This election is a once-in-a-generation chance to transform our country, take on the vested interests holding people back and ensure that no community is left behind.

“So, we’re going after the tax dodgers. We’re going after the dodgy landlords. We’re going after the bad bosses. We’re going after the big polluters. Because we know whose side we’re on.

“Whose side are you on? The dodgy landlords, like the Duke of Westminster, Britain’s youngest billionaire, who tried to evict whole blocks of families to make way for luxury apartments? Or the millions of tenants in Britain who struggle to pay their rent each month?”

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8.02am update: Election confirmed as bill flies through House of Lords

The House of Lords passed the election bill last night, meaning the UK will go to the polls on December 12.

The one-page bill got through the House of Commons in just one night, after having two readings in the House of Lords that were unopposed.

Baroness Evans of Bowes Park, leader of the House of Lords, opened the debate and was watched on by the prime minister Mr Johnson.

She said: “Having an election will allow us to all put our cases to the public, gives them the opportunity to decide how they want to move forward, and to ensure the new government has time to act before 31 January 2020.”

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