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Why Nigel Farage's party worries Boris Johnson more than a no-deal Brexit

The Brexit Party, which will launch its own election plans on Tuesday, is keeping up the pressure

File photo of Boris Johnson. Photo: AP/PTI
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File photo of Boris Johnson. Photo: AP/PTI

Therese Raphael | Bloomberg
If UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson seems rather glib about the idea of his country crashing out of the European Union without a deal – an outcome that myriad authoritative bodies have predicted will be highly costly for the UK economy -- it is most likely because there is something he fears more than that.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is far from a real opposition party. It doesn’t have a single member of parliament. It may even have peaked in the polls since Johnson took the Conservative Party reins. But it could easily pose a threat to the Conservatives winning an