General election 2019: Farage seats move and Lib Dem debate challenge - BBC News
All the news and analysis as campaigning enters its second week as Nigel Farage gives Boris Johnson a boost.
First of all, this does clearly gives Boris Johnson an easier time in some of the seats that the Tories need to hold - there's no question about that.

But second of all, if he wants to get the majority that he craves, the Tories have to be taking seats from the other parties and particularly in this context, from Brexit voters who normally vote Labour.

Now in a really tightly-fought seat - somewhere where it's really close between Labour and the Conservaive Party - if those natural Labour voters who were Brexiteers decide to go for the Brexit Party then the Tory Party would be very likely to come up short in their competition to get the majority that they crave.

But the third thing to say about all of this. It was not so long ago that in the European elections in the spring that Nigel Farage's Brexit Party looked like they had the chance of sweeping through the political establishment.

That was his dream. And today he has been shown to have fallen well short of that. Of course his party is still likely to have an impact on this election.

But in the words of one insider in Westminster tonight, it's like the finish line has been moved a little bit, but it's basically still the same race.