Paul Mason
What price the EU, including fascists?
Imagine you went to sleep in 1994 and woke up 20 years later as the Euro election results were coming in. What you might make of them can tell us a lot about Europe today.
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Nigel Farage: Ukip ‘will win’ seats in 2015
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’.
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Patrick O’Flynn on Ukip’s rise
Ukip MEP and its director of communications Patrick O’Flynn on Nigel Farage and the rise of their party.
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FactCheck: Will Farage ever get to Westminster?
Ukip won hundreds of seats in the local elections, but that may not mean the party will cruise into Westminster in 2015.
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Paul Mason
The culture war behind the crisis of mainstream politics
Imagine a remake of war film The Way Ahead, but starring an Essex man, a hipster, a Muslim and a gay man.
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Michael Crick
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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Alex Thomson
Four things to note about this Ukip-dominated election
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.
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Gary Gibbon
Elections: London, west Berlin and beyond Barking
We were used to the north-south fracture line in English election results. Yesterday’s local elections confirmed it’s even more fractured than that.
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Ukip local poll breakthrough – but not quite an earthquake
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.
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Local elections 2014 – the key questions
You could be forgiven for thinking Ukip won the council elections. It didn’t, but a strong showing from Nigel Farage’s party has sent shockwaves through the Tories, Labour and Liberal Democrats.
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Ukip heat map – where are Nigel’s purple blobs?
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.
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Jon Snow
An election day like no other?
Although the media did not seem able to land a finger on Ukip leader Nigel Farage in the run-up to Thursday’s poll, it could be the “none of the above” faction that comes out on top.
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Gary Gibbon
Nigel Farage: shock jock or statesman?
One Tory strategist compares Nigel Farage to a “shock jock” radio host whose daily rants won’t measure up to what voters expect of a leader.
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Ukip election candidate hospitalised after attack
A Ukip election candidate has “extensive surgery” after being attacked in the street in an incident described as “shocking” and “horrifying” by his party.
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Rachida Dati: governments have ‘alienated voters’
Ahead of Thursday’s European elections, French MEP and former minister Rachida Dati talks to Channel 4 News about Ukip and a British referendum on EU membership.
