Seven reasons why success breeds success for Ukip
Are Ukip’s results the sign of an earthquake or a tremor? Their share of the vote may be slightly down, but the party has learned a lot in time for 2015.
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Ukip gains at the polls and an eventual exit from the European Union – the prediction of one academic if voter apathy persists among young people in this country.
Following success in the EU elections, Nigel Farage is setting his sights on Westminster – and on next week’s Newark by-election. Are the parties pulling their weight?
Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing other EU leaders to embrace reform following the political “earthquake” that saw eurosceptic parties succeed in the European elections.
Nigel Farage says Ukip will win seats in the 2015 general election and is now the “third force” in British politics – adding that Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg’s position in now ‘untenable’.
Most Ukip voters feel ignored by politicians and are nostalgic for the 1980s and early 90s, a period most of them believe was a better one in which to bring up children, a poll shows.
Ukip MEP and its director of communications Patrick O’Flynn on Nigel Farage and the rise of their party.
Are Ukip’s results the sign of an earthquake or a tremor? Their share of the vote may be slightly down, but the party has learned a lot in time for 2015.
The main parties have been running scared of what Ukip has to say. Hopefully, these election results will encourage a new atmosphere of real debate.
The local election results produce Ukip successes in Tory Essex and Labour Rotherham, while Labour is the big winner in London. The Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, lose control in Portsmouth.
Ukip appears to have made strong gains in the UK local elections 2014 – but its support is split across the country. Channel 4 News looks at where Ukip have been gaining influence.
Nigel Farage rules the roost in the soundbite stakes with his “Ukip fox” dominating local election coverage. Channel 4 News pits party leaders against him to ask: whose message is getting through?
A Ukip election candidate has “extensive surgery” after being attacked in the street in an incident described as “shocking” and “horrifying” by his party.
The internet unceremoniously hijacks Ukip’s trend in the final hours of the European elections, as the party attempts to bolster its support.
David Cameron is acutely aware of the toxicity of the Tory brand in Scotland. While Nigel Farage is looking tanned – yet tired – after his remarks about Romanians last week.
It was supposed to be a carnival in Croydon to rebuff allegations of racism – but it didn’t go to plan for Ukip after the steel band stopped playing when they were told who had booked them.