Sentences with phrase «ukip now»

However, in the last election she voted differently, saying that UKIP now are «too much like the BNP» (which I presume is a reference to their Islamophobic turn).

Ukip now have a total of 12 seats on Basildon council.

If they ditch Ukip now, they might be thought likeliest to return to the fold - especially with Labour unabashedly backing Brexit.

UKIP now has two MPs and has been rising in the polls, but do people see the party as a serious political force or just a protest vote?

UKIP now finds itself in a similar position to Labour and the Conservatives.

Could Ukip now become its biggest champions?

So UKIP now needs to be patient and play the long game, and to live without its velvet - collared, beer - drinking, cigarette - wielding cartoonist's dream.

This alone shows the extent to which UKIP now sets the agenda in British politics.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage has resigned as leader of his party after failing to be elected as an MP but says Ukip now has its sights set on doing well at the Welsh Assembly elections in 2016.

First, the most immediately striking effect of this shift is that UKIP now lead in two seats — Thurrock and Thanet South.

UKIP now regularly pips the Liberal Democrats to third place in national voting intention polls.

Ukip now commands support of 13 % of rural voters, in a significant development that will be of deep concern to ministers.

Not exact matches

«I see Macron as the enemy,» said Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) who was a key player in the Brexit vote, and now backs Le Pen.

Both of these commentators focus on the comedian who performed at the after - dinner entertainment and, more importantly, Nigel Farage's defence of his deeply unpleasant act, leading Dan Hodges to say in the Telegraph: «Ukip is now a racist party».

Conservatives are now throwing everything at defeating Reckless in the upcoming by - election, in a bid to stem the flow of Tory MPs willing to switch to Ukip.

Now Woolfe is back on his feet — and he may just have delivered the coup de grâce that will put Ukip out of its misery.

UKIP has grown now to a membership of over 35,000 and seems to be finally breaking out of its single issue, single personality mould, to become a real electoral challenge to the Tories.

But Labour insiders are now increasingly confident that the party can see off Nuttall after a disastrous few days for the Ukip leader.

The challenge UKIP face now is to maintain party discipline and develop a strong campaign organisation to take maximum advantage of the referendum campaign and build toward the next general election.

It is hard to see any useful role for him in Britain: there is no national populist upsurge; those that vote UKIP will never listen to him; he is now also widely disliked within the modern Labour Party, as unfair as that might be.

The political class responsible for ushering in these changes, a class composed of members of all three major parties, are now reaping the consequences in the form of widespread public distrust and the rise of UKIP.

Kassam has encouraged his supporters to back Peter Whittle, but the announcement means that Nuttal, former deputy Ukip leader, now looks set to seize the Ukip crown.

As Westminster watchers crowd round the train - wreck of Steven Woolfe's failed bid for Ukip leader little attention is being paid to the woman who now looks set to take the crown — and that's the way she will like it.

With so much of the 2015 UKIP vote now embedded in the Tory Coalition, and with Labour now more officially a party of soft Brexit, it is very difficult to see how the next election will play out.

UKIP has been plagued by infighting in the past, and now that Farage appears to have become a divisive figure, the greatest threat for the party is, once more, internal disunity.

Quite the opposite: the same voices which told Cameron that an in - out EU referendum would neutralise Ukip are now calling for an electoral pact with the party or to adopt tougher positions on welfare and immigration.

Five Star leader Grillo recommended leaving the EFDD because he claimed his MEPs no longer shared common aims with their Ukip counterparts now Britain is leaving the EU.

The «British dream» remark may evoke bygone US presidential elections, but Woolfe's message is simple: now Brexit is on its way, he wants to pitch Ukip as the party of improving «social mobility».

«Ukip is getting itself now into a position in some of the marginals where it is in a serious position to win a seat in parliament and not just to split the vote.»

Ukip are now, more than ever after last night, the guard dogs of Brexit.»

Right now, Ukip are showing signs of breaking into a system designed to keep protest parties out of parliament.

Firstly that they see this as an opportunity to increase their majority at the expense of Labour and UKIP both of which are now in rather awkward positions and secondly that the current leadership has inherited a bit of an awkward position themselves in that they are committed to a process which is both diplomatically and politically potentially very difficult and dangerous and if it all goes horribly wrong they are really out on a limb so if they get a fresh mandate they can at least blame the voters.

It blocked out the Liberal Democrats for years and now it is doing the same to Ukip.

Amongst them, UKIP failed to get more than one seat and is now in the midst of an internal turmoil.

With the Ukip threat looming larger than ever now the latest wave of immigration to Britain is underway, this is far from the best approach.

But there's no doubt that UKIP's campaigning has shifted up a gear recently, with aides claiming that Farage is now in South Thanet «several times a week».

Looking back to 2009, Rallings and Thrasher now estimate that UKIP were on 10 % in the NEV..

It is not hard to see why: my research finds that 12 % of those who voted Tory in 2010 now say they would vote UKIP in an election tomorrow.

However, Ukip's national executive council has now passed strict new rules policing members» social media activity and threatening immediate suspension for those who «embarrass» the party.

Yet now Labour is simultaneously losing support not just to the Tories but also UKIP, the Greens and the SNP.

Our model now gives a 7 % chance that the Conservatives will be the largest party but could only form a majority with the support of all of the Lib Dems, the DUP and UKIP.

But right now the UKIP leader is doing everything possible to avoid the press covering his battle to get elected to parliament for South Thanet.

Ed Miliband could copy UKIP's lines word - for - word and the best he would get is «Labour admit they now regret destroying British culture with their scrounger Muslim flood (who vote Labour, by the way)».

But in terms of the Conservative electoral coalition, Brexit has produced a less ambiguous effect: the party has absorbed a large portion of the former UKIP vote, as voters on the authoritarian side of the political spectrum have migrated, or returned, to a Conservative Party that now promises concrete, credible action to regain control of the borders.

Polls suggest that UKIP support has risen steadily since the general election from 3 % in 2010 to 11.5 % now, with a 4 % rise since last year.

It is now a shadow of its former self, with the English Defence League (EDL) having a stronger street presence and Ukip channelling anti-immigrant sentiment in a more mainstream direction.

This is not because Liverpool Walton is peppered with enclaves of bankers and stockbrokers; it's because a substantial section of the working class has always voted for parties other than Labour and now that vote is going to Ukip.

Just spoken to Tory parliamentary candidate for Hull West and Hessle, Mike Whitehead, who has now left the Conservatives and joined UKIP!

Where the party do gain a platform at the debates, they will be accompanied by the Green Party, UKIP, the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru — parties which now occupy the outsider status which the Liberal Democrats once claimed.

15th May 2017, The Independent: Tory voters think their party is now more right - wing thank Ukip, poll finds