Tag: UK Independence Party

• Tuesday, May 21st 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  “Milkshake attacks” on discredited UK politicians as voters vent their fury over Brexit and EU elections

  

  The UK Electoral Commission said it will visit the offices of Nigel Farage's Brexit Party to review how it raises money after former Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for an investigation. The party leads polling ahead of Thursday's European elections as it attracts voters disgruntled at the failure of the mainstream parties to deliver Brexit.

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2015 - 06:59 UTC

  UK debate on EU gets nasty: business lobby ready to support “No Thanks, We're Going Global”

  

  A group of British business leaders and entrepreneurs are preparing to launch a campaign for Britain to leave the European Union at a planned membership referendum, a major donor to the UK Independence Party said.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2015 - 05:43 UTC

  Europe at center of debate in UK electoral campaign that anticipates no clear winner

  

  Several lawmakers from British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives will join the anti-EU UK Independence Party if he renews a coalition with the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, UKIP’s leader Nigel Farage forecasted.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2014 - 08:14 UTC

  UKIP makes history: breaks traditional British bipartisanship

  

  The victory of Britain’s euro-skeptic UK Independent Party in European elections broke the traditional British bipartisanship for the first time in over a century. UKIP party swept to victory riding a tide of Euro-skepticism and anxiety about immigration to beat Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives and the opposition Labor party.

• Monday, May 26th 2014 - 07:26 UTC

  Farage and the UKIP in course for a 'shockwave' victory in European elections

  

  The UK Independent Party, UKIP, is course for an emphatic victory in the European elections in the UK - with leader Nigel Farage promising to use it as a springboard for next year's general election.

• Saturday, May 4th 2013 - 08:54 UTC

  “Pepe” Grillo protest-vote syndrome emerges in UK local elections and rattles three main parties

  

  Italy’s ‘Pepe’ Grillo protest syndrome emerged in British local elections. The anti-European Union UK Independence Party made sweeping gains in these elections, siphoning support from British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives in a vote that exposed a threat to his re-election chances in 2015.