Nigel Farage has said he won't vote in the general election – because he can't bring himself to back the Tory where he lives.

The Brexit Party leader this week stood down candidates in all 317 constituencies won by the Tories in 2017, including his own in Kent.

But Mr Farage has said he can't vote for the party – and has apologised to Brexit Party voters who now feel they have no one to vote for.

Asked how he would vote, Mr Farage said: "I doubt I'll vote. I very much doubt I'll vote."

He said he couldn't back the Tories because "party interest" is "all they care about."

When asked whether he had ever not voted before, he said: "I did spoil a paper in 1992. I couldn't vote for John Major, I couldn't do it.

"My last Conservative vote was 1987."

It came after the Brexit leader said his candidates are being subjected to “Venezuelan style” intimidation by the Conservative Party.

Mr Farage said: “What we're seeing is the most incredible, aggressive intimidation of our candidates.”

He said that candidates for the party were putting themselves up to demonstrate that this is a “free and fair” democracy.

“Yet there are people who are effectively being denied that right because they are being intimidated, and told they mustn't stand because if they do the next four weeks will be hell. It's disgraceful, he added.

The Brexit Party is expected to stand in 300 seats – challenging Labour in every Leave marginal seat in the country.

But the Tories have said they are unwilling to stand down for the party in any of those seats – despite Mr Farage's offer.

Mr Farage said that Tories could have "used my gesture, showed some reciprocity and they would have got some good will from the Brexit Party supporters in those seats and they haven't done that”.

Asked if he feared splitting the Leave vote, Mr Farage said: "I'm very worried about the Leave vote being split, very, very worried about these constituencies that have been Labour for decades, where the Conservatives have never won, can never win, and yet they are still putting up a candidate against our candidates who are the challengers to Labour in those seats.

"It tells me all I need to know about the Conservative Party. All they care about is the party, not getting a Leave majority in Westminster."

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