Nigel Farage move may not help Tories as much as it first appears

Nigel Farage: his party’s polling average has slipped to just 9%. Photograph: Frank Augstein/APNigel Farage’s unilateral announcement that he will engage in a one-way electoral pact with the Conservatives will be an undoubted relief to Boris Johnson, but the benefit may be more limited than it first appears.Headline polling data already indicated that the Brexit party was being successfully squeezed by the Tories’ pro-Brexit strategy. Its polling average had slumped from 12% in