$57K - $116.2K. Others leaving included Peter Whittle, the party's top vote-winner on the London Assembly. [149] In response, Braine accused the NEC of carrying out a purge of members. [220][273] The donation indicated that Desmond's papers, the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday, would back UKIP in the 2015 general election. [332] The national party and UKIP Scotland focused on supporting the candidates for the 2014 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom. [150] All four members were reported to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. [132] Previous leader Nigel Farage stated he was "really upset" that Robinson could be allowed into the party and that he believed Gerard Batten was marginalising the party.[133]. [270], UKIP has several high-profile backers. Wikiwand is the world's leading Wikipedia reader for web and mobile. [124] MEP James Carver left UKIP to sit as an independent on 28 May 2018, becoming the sixth UKIP MEP to leave since 2014. [319] It has not done well in London and in university towns and urban areas with younger populations like Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, and Brighton. jeff taylor ukip wiki. ISBN 9780826216618. [107] In the following 2017 general election, UKIP received fewer than 600,000 votes and won no seats. [351] The party however failed to continue its representation at the 2016 election, coming within a hundred votes of taking a seat in East Antrim. [94] In the 2015 Oldham West and Royton by-election the party attacked Jeremy Corbyn as a security risk, but only gained a small increase in support at the expense of the Conservative Party. Basterds I'v us an election and they ll be jobless. ", "Nigel Farage on trade, National Insurance and expenses", "Ukip to team up in 'unholy alliance' with Steve Bannon's new far-right European movement", "The Emerging European Public Sphere in the Far of Russia's Information War", "Is Ukip the most divided party in British politics? [325], UKIP supporters are sometimes nicknamed "kippers". [179] The party's rhetoric presents the idea that there is a fundamental divide between the British population and the elite who govern the country. [100], From their analysis of the data, Ford and Goodwin stated that UKIP's support base has "strong parallels" both with that of Western Europe's other radical right parties and with the BNP during their electoral heyday. [354] [205] UKIP characterises the EU as a fundamentally undemocratic institution and stresses the need to regain what it describes as the UK's national sovereignty from the EU. [254] Farage has spoken in favour of an insurance-based system in the past, which he said would resemble the French and Dutch style system rather than an American style private system, but this was rejected by the party. [377][378] The EFDD group lost official status in October 2014 when the defection of the Latvian MEP Iveta Grigule meant its membership no longer met the required number of states for Parliamentary groups (at least seven different member states). [362] UKIP subsequently focused on the 2011 local elections, in which it fielded over 1,100 candidates, winning seven seats and becoming the main opposition in over 100. ", "UKIP: Ex-Conservative minister Neil Hamilton elected party leader", "Ukip Manifesto: We Read It So You Don't Have To", "Ukip manifesto 2017: Paul Nuttall's key policies", "Ukip manifesto for General Election 2017: Key points, policies and summary", "Local elections: What does UKIP stand for? [74] In the 2014 European Parliament elections, UKIP received the greatest number of votes (27.5%) of any British party, producing 24 MEPs. [218] To regulate the arrival of skilled migrants, it called for the UK to adopt a points-based system akin to that employed by Australia. On 2 December 2019, Mountain appeared on Sky News for an interview with journalist Adam Boulton as a part of the launch of the election manifesto for UKIP; it lasted for eight minutes and the interview was described by the Evening Standard as a "car crash",[155] and there were reports that she was mistaken for the titular character of Catherine Tate's Nan.