Despite UKIP’s well publicised growth in recent years, the sway of public opinions appears to be moving to a more pro-Europe stance.
UKIP’s is on the rise, but the best precedent for what might happen to Nigel Farage’s party in 2015 might be the experience of the Social Democratic Party in the early 1980s.
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has been invited to take part in a televised debate with David Cameron, Ed Miliband, and Nick Clegg ahead of the 2015 general election.
UKIP has a seat in the House of Commons, after Douglas Carswell, the former Conservative MP who defected to UKIP, won back his Clacton seat in an expected, but still convincing by-election victory for his new party.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson used his speech at the Tory Party conference to poke fun at the recent Conservative defectors to UKIP, describing them as ‘vacuum cleaner abusers’.