This was followed by the party gaining around five hundred members. 18 seat majority Here is the polling average of the polls below together with the seat changes on a uniform swing. [364], The first UKIP local council election win occurred when one of its members was elected to South Cambridgeshire District Council in 2000. Southern Germany, the provinces of Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg, is perhaps the most visited part of Germany. 16 th to 18 th Century: Early Modern Ages (General). "[431], In a May 2014 YouGov survey, 47% considered the media to be biased against UKIP, which was double the percentage who deemed the media biased against any other party. [278] Following her departure after 18 days, Banks said that he would leave UKIP if Steven Woolfe was prevented from running for leader, and if two other members remained in the party: "If Neil Hamilton and Douglas Carswell [UKIP's only MP] remain in the party, and the NEC decide that Steven Woolfe cannot run for leader, I will be leaving UKIP". [43] According to Farage, Cameron was "a socialist" whose priorities were "gay marriage, foreign aid, and wind farms". The list below details the composition of the House of Commons, which is made up for a total of 650 seats, based on the number of MPs in each party. [320] The Independent Expert Panel (IEP) has today [20th December 2022] published its decision dismissing an appeal by Andrew Bridgen MP against the decision of the House of Commons Committee on Standards that he had breached the Code of Conduct for MPs. [161][163] Vachha argued a short time later that he was still leader, and that his suspension was unconstitutional, as he claimed to have appointed Marietta King as chairman in place of Ben Walker a few days earlier. [265], In its 2015 election manifesto, UKIP promised to teach a chronological understanding of "British history and achievements" in schools,[202] and it calls for the scrapping of sex education for children under 11. [208] By 2015, it had modified this to the view that the five-year ban should apply only to unskilled migrants. [297] This scenario had come about following the rapid growth of the middle-classes and the concomitant decline of the working-class population in Western Europe; the centre-left, social-democratic parties who had traditionally courted the support of the working classes largely switched their attention to the newly emergent middle-classes, leaving their initial support base increasingly alienated and creating the vacuum which the radical right exploited. [22] Sked left the party, alleging that it had been infiltrated by racist and far-right elements, including BNP spies. [144] In the 2019 UKIP leadership election, Richard Braine was elected UKIP leader and attempted to appoint Batten as deputy leader. [20] The Referendum Party disbanded following Goldsmith's death later that year and many of its candidates joined UKIP. [231] The party was known for its pro-Russia stance on foreign policy. [239] Farage has characterised UKIP as "the true inheritors" of Thatcher, claiming that the party never would have formed had Thatcher remained Prime Minister of the UK throughout the 1990s. [380] After the 2009 European parliament election, UKIP was a founder member of a new right-wing grouping called Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) comprising Eurosceptic, radical right, nationalist, national-conservative and other political factions. The UK entered the European Union as one single entity but left it with a customs border down the Irish Sea that leaves Northern Ireland in the European Union's single market and hence subject to laws emanating from the EU and enforced by the European Court of Justice. The next United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held no later than 28 January 2025. [294] In this way, UKIP's support base does not line up with the historical left-right divide in British politics, instead being primarily rooted in class divisions. [293], In its early years, UKIP targeted itself towards southern English, middle-class Eurosceptic voters, those who had been supporters of the Conservative Party until John Major's Conservative government signed the Maastricht Treaty. [107] In July 2017, it lost its majority on Thanet council when Councillor Beverly Martin defected to the Conservatives;[108] in September all three UKIP councillors on Plymouth City Council defected to the Conservatives,[109] as did Alexandra Phillips, who had been UKIP's Head of Media for three years. [164] Vachha decided to take legal action, however in December a judge refused his request to fast-track the case. [221][274] 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. ", "UKIP: Ex-Conservative minister Neil Hamilton elected party leader", "Ukip loses all six seats in local elections", "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? As a result of the 1999 European parliament election, three UKIP MEPs were elected to the European Parliament. [325] On the basis of their fieldwork among supporters of the English Defence League (EDL), an anti-Islam social movement, Winlow, Hall, and Treadwell noted that most EDL supporters whom they encountered intended to vote for UKIP in the build-up to the 2015 general election. Number of seats won in Welsh Parliament (Senedd . [215] UKIP rejected the description that they were "Europhobes", maintaining that its stance was anti-EU, not anti-European. Whilst left wing Labour won one of the seats, the other was one by a Tory defect to UKIP, a far(ish) right wing party. In the English seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, UKIP candidate Douglas Carswell won 21,113 votes or 60 percent of the vote, giving him a majority of 12,404. [193] In UKIP's literature, the party has placed an emphasis on "restoring Britishness" and counteracting what it sees as a "serious existential crisis" exhibited by the "Islamification" of Britain, the "pseudo-nationalisms" of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and the multicultural and supranational policies promoted by "the cultural left", describing its own stance as being "unashamedly unicultural". [105] in the 2018 United Kingdom local elections, UKIP lost all but 3 of the 126 seats it was defending. By law, individual donations over 7,500 must be reported. [219] For many years such individuals were internally tolerated within the party, although as part of Farage's push to professionalise the party a number of its members, such as MEP Godfrey Bloom, were expelled for making comments that brought UKIP into disrepute. [199] The party has mobilised English nationalist sentiment brought on by English concerns following the devolution within the UK and the rise of Welsh and Scottish nationalisms. Nigel Farage See all related content United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), British political party founded in 1993. The party was criticised for failing "to capitalise on the collapse of the Conservatives" by commentators. While gaining electoral support from various sectors of British society, psephologists established that at its height, UKIP's primary voting base consisted of older, working-class white men living in England. [264] [227] The political scientist Simon Usherwood stated that UKIP's hardening of immigration policy "risked reinforcing the party's profile as a quasi-far-right grouping",[228] elsewhere stating that the party was only held together by its opposition to the EU and immigration, suggesting that it had "no ideological coherence" beyond that. European Elections take place every 5 years and the last elections were held on 23-26 May 2019. [255] 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. The conflict between UKIP's voters and the political mainstream reflects a deep-seated difference in outlook among voters from different walks in life. [292], The party's report to The Electoral Commission of its accounts as of 31 December 2020 stated the party had a membership of 3,888.[4]. They are elected in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The 2015 British general election and the UK Independence Party (UKIP)", "Shades of Purple A Discursive Analysis of Mainstream Political Party Responses to UKIP", "The European Union as a Totalitarian Nightmare: Dystopian Visions in the Discourse of the UK Independence Party (UKIP)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UK_Independence_Party&oldid=1161005790, Henleaze Business Centre, 13 Harbury Road, Henleaze, Bristol, BS9 4PN, Former chairman; MEP from 1999; left party in 2018, Member of House of Lords; left the party in 2019, Leader-elect, MEP 20142019; left party in 2016, Deputy leader 20102016; MEP 20092019; left party in 2018, Suspended from party in October 2019; subsequently resigned as leader, Chairman of UKIP London, Leadership candidate in 2019. [113][114][115][116] In January 2018, UKIP's NEC delivered a vote of no confidence in Bolton; only Bolton voted against the motion. [149] All four members were reported to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. In 2016, it was noted that most of this had focused on examining the party's electoral support base, its consequences for other parties, and the possibilities and prospects of a referendum on continued EU membership, with little having focused on an examination of the party's policies. [103] The next month, Reckless also left UKIP. [375] The party now only has elected representatives on parish and town councils, the lowest level of local government; party chairman Ben Walker said the party had "about 30 parish councillors". He was replaced by Gerard Batten as interim leader until a new leadership election could be held. [73] In the 2014 European Parliament elections, UKIP received the greatest number of votes (27.5%) of any British party, producing 24 MEPs. The anti-EU UK Independence Party has secured its first seat in parliament, with former Tory MP Douglas Carswell taking the by-election seat of Clacton. [65] During this year, UKIP had witnessed far greater press coverage and growing support, with opinion polls placing it at around 10% support in late 2012. The party adopted the slogan "say no" and launched a national billboard campaign. [137] By April 2019, of 24 UKIP MEPs elected in the 2014 European Election, only 4 remained members of UKIP. [40] To attract support, he cultivated an image of himself as a "man of the people", openly smoking and drinking, showing disdain for the established parties, and speaking in an open manner that appeared unscripted. [158] The party also failed to retain any deposits, only received more than 1,000 votes in two seats, and, in another two seats, finished behind the satirical Official Monster Raving Loony Party. Led by Farage, the NEC removed Holmes from power, and Titford was elected leader. [266] UKIP have promoted the scrapping of the government target that 50% of school leavers attend university, and present the policy that tuition fees would be scrapped for students taking approved degrees in science, medicine, technology, engineering or mathematics. [324] Conversely, a March 2015 Ipsos Mori poll found among 18- to 34-year-olds UKIP was polling nearly as well as the Green Party, somewhat contradicting the idea that Farage lacked appeal for younger voters. In campaigning on emotive issues, UKIP has proved divisive. [423] Many on Britain's centre-left have been reluctant to accept that UKIP was hindering public support for Labour, instead believing that they were primarily a problem for the Conservatives and would thus help produce a Labour victory. See a full alphabetical list of women members of the House of Lords, with links to contact and biographical information. Candidates selected by UKIP to run in the election included right-wing YouTube personalities, Carl Benjamin and Mark Meechan. [44] Cameron was highly critical of UKIP, referring to them as "fruitcakes, loonies, and closet racists". In March 2009, the Conservative Party's biggest-ever donor, Stuart Wheeler, donated 100,000 to UKIP after criticising Cameron's stance towards the Treaty of Lisbon. [305], Ford and Goodwin nevertheless noted that UKIP was "not a purely blue-collar party but an alliance of manual workers, employers and the self-employed. [66] UKIP put up a record number of candidates for the 2013 local elections, achieving its strongest local government result, polling an average of 23% in the wards where it stood, and increasing its number of elected councillors from 4 to 147. [13] Under the Anti-Federalist League's banner, Sked was a candidate for Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath at the 1992 general election, gaining 0.2% of the vote. 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