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The UK Independence Party (UKIP, / ˈ juː k ɪ p / ⓘ YOO-kip) is a Eurosceptic, right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. The party reached its greatest level of success in the mid-2010s, when it gained two members of parliament (both through defections) and was the largest party representing the UK in the European Parliament.
Nigel Paul Farage (/ ˈ f ær ɑː ʒ / ⓘ FARR-ahzh; born 3 April 1964) is a British politician and broadcaster who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton and Leader of Reform UK [c] since 2024, having previously been its leader from 2019 to 2021.
UKIP had seven members elected to the Welsh Assembly at the 2016 election. Following multiple defections, there was only one UKIP Assembly member (now Member of the Senedd, MS) by the time of the 2021 Senedd election: Neil Hamilton; Nathan Gill was elected in 2016, but left the Assembly group later that year to sit as an Independent. [13]
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Leader Nigel Farage has claimed his party is now the ‘opposition to Labour’ after an opinion poll put it ahead of the Tories.
Kilroy-Silk stood on the UKIP list for the East Midlands constituency and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the second seat for his region.The election used a closed list form of proportional representation; UKIP scored 26.05 per cent of the vote in that region, just behind the Conservatives with 26.39 per cent.
Meet the Ukippers is a British documentary that first aired on BBC Two on 22 February 2015. The film follows the activities of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in South Thanet, a constituency in South East England which had selected party leader Nigel Farage to contest the 2015 general election.
Farage, who previously owned 60% of Reform UK Party Ltd, had been the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a right-wing populist and Eurosceptic party, in the first half of the 2010s, and returned to frontline politics as leader of the Brexit Party during the Brexit process after the 2016 EU membership referendum, which had been called ...