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Labour leader Ed Miliband (right) is urged not to try to copy the policies of Ukip leader Nigel Farage (left)

Interestingly, what seems to be correlated with UKIP vote is the perception of levels of immigration (Spearman correlation 0.54).

Mark Reckless won Thursday's by - election, the second Tory defector to be returned to the Commons for UKIP in as many months.

Nigel Farage ponders his candidacy for UKIP leader after Lord Pearson steps down.

His polling converges with Lord Ashcroft's in finding that Boris scores well with UKIP voters, despite his shape - shifting views on Britain's EU membership.

Less than three quarters of Ukip voters from the 2014 European Elections would vote the same way in a general election, an ITV News / ComRes poll has found.

The paper's main coverage, on pages 10 - 11, predictably took a very critical position on the party and highlighted racist and / or inaccurate statements that have been made by UKIP candidates.

Nigel Farage has written about his decision to stay on as Ukip leader in the Telegraph.

The Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps was ambushed by Ukip supporters as he visited Sandwich with Michael Howard as party of the election campaign.

Presenter Andrew Neil explained that the item followed on from UKIP leader Nigel Farage's weather forecast the previous week.

Err # 12m + voted UKIP on the last election, that's only 4m less than the amount of people that wanted to remain.

Fabian pamphlet says Ukip support stems from deep disillusionment with Westminster, and urges handing of more power to local communities

He looks back through the archives and speaks to former UKIP candidate and Conservative MP George Eustice.

A surge in Ukip support at the European elections next month is unlikely to translate into seats for the eurosceptic party, according to new research.

It would mean adopting what a recent YouGov poll revealed was the favoured solution of about half of Ukip supporters of «encouraging» lawfully settled immigrants (together with their British - born children) to return to their country of origin.

Many Conservatives vote for UKIP at European elections because it's a good way of putting pressure on their own party to become more eurosceptical.

Even if UKIP don't win it, a close second place would be a significant success.

The trouble in many of these seats is if Ukip voters back May.

In other developments, reports emerged of Nigel Farage allegedly holding fascist views and singing pro-Hitler songs at school while a former Ukip MEP said the candidate selection process was «gerrymandered».

Labour leader Ed Miliband is facing a fight to hold off the growing Ukip threat in the party's heartlands

The aspirational voters of suburban England — middle - class seats with falling unemployment and rising incomes — swung behind the Cameron - Osborne «long - term economic plan», while Ukip surged in seats with large concentrations of poorer, white working - class English nationalists, many of whom sympathised with Labour's economic message but not the people delivering it.

The best way to see the wider impact of this is to compare the seats where Ukip stood for the first time in 2014 with those where they did not have a candidate.

In the 2015 general election, Labour won with 55 % of the vote while Ukip came second on 21 %.

Douglas Carswell reveals unease about Ukip leader's remarks during election campaign, saying they could put off potential voters

He was formally introduced to the Commons by fellow Ukip MP Douglas Carswell and Tory Philip Hollobone.

The initial two results from Hull are similar to those in Sunderland with UKIP winning 28 % of the vote in both cases.

He was given a rapturous reception by Ukip party members when he made his defection announcement.

Further evidence of homophobic, racist and anti-Semitic comments from Ukip members also emerged over the last week.

Former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has dismissed reports that he is considering joining Ukip as «absolutely laughable».

The former Labour prime minister Tony Blair joined the inquest, saying: «It is right to be worried when a party like Ukip comes first in the European election, it would be foolish not to be.

Expect to see UKIP gain council seats, and the Tories perhaps making something of a comeback in urban Tyneside.

Tory lieutenant makes Thatcher analogy as he insists PM will not lurch further to right after Ukip takes second place in byelection

Mike Hookem insisted he acted in self - defence during a «scuffle» with Ukip leadership favourite Steven Woolfe.

Although people who say they intend to vote UKIP also appear to be more intent on voting than those who say they'll vote for mainstream parties, we don't really know whether they will.

No one who had read any of this material from a site and magazine which came out for Labour could have been surprised by the inroads which Ukip made into the Labour vote.

Members of UKIP stood and applauded their embattled leader Paul Nuttall at the party's Spring Conference.

We have to redouble our efforts so by the next general election we have a story to tell about the global race for Britain, and how the Conservative party is leading the charge to ensure we are in the right place on the issues that matter, including the ones about which Ukip voters are concerned.

This was because UKIP took more votes away from parties other than Labour — notably the Conservatives.

In a multi-party system, being a polarising figure is not always a terrible thing so I would not be surprised to see Ukip get at least a temporary bump from tonight's debate.

He appeared on stage at UKIPs conference yesterday to announce he had resigned and joined the party - in doing so he triggered a by - election.

Arron Banks, the former Ukip donor who is funding GO and the associated Leave.EU group, is a director of Rock Services.

Figures showing Ukip gets more cash through state money than from any of its private donors individuallyhave highlighted the party's funding collapse.

Video shows Ukip leader defending using the word «chinky» and telling breastfeeding women to «sit in a corner».

He is up against Ukip councillor Lisa Duffy (backed by Suzanne Evans), with MEPs Bill Etheridge and Jonathan Arnott also in the mix.

There is no such threat from UKIP now.

One - third said they were prepared to support Ukip because of the candidate.

By comparison with the last county council elections in 2009 it does look like UKIP gains were at the expense of the Conservatives.

Donald Trump has engineered a major public disagreement with Theresa May by backing Ukip leader Nigel Farage to be the next British ambassador to America.