The governing centre-right Conservative Party, under its new leader May, “now appears committed to delivering Brexit while also offering policies that have always been advocated by UKIP”, such as introducing more selective schools, said Goodwin.
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She briefly blipped on the radar after telling LBC’s Iain Dale that she admired Vladimir Putin as a “strong leader” and suggested UKIP and the Russian leader shared a common distaste of the European Union. Bookmakers were offering odds of up to 90% for the Bedford-born candidate, who had been endorsed by party donor and prominent Brexit campaigner Arron Banks.
Speaking in front of delegates in the conference hall, he said: “I will be frank at this point, because I can be now”. “I want my country back, but now folks I want my life back”.
“Thank you for your good wishes, thank you everyone who voted”.
“I am not Nigel-like, I am not even Nigel-lite”.
“I am truly honoured to take on from Nigel and I am immensely grateful for what you betrothed on me”.
Her language skills helped her land a job with a German pharmaceutical company, before she moved into the healthcare sector in the 1980s, studying the USA system. We may have been flawed by a morally bankrupt FPTP system but absolutely nobody can take away from UKIP the disruption we’ve caused.
“The days of Project Fear tactics have had their day”.
Farage – who has a fair claim to have influenced the course of British politics more than any other non-MP following his campaign’s victory in the June Brexit referendum – is now thought likely to look for a media career, although he remains an MEP until Britain leaves the EU. ‘You did it ladies and gentlemen. Why are they here?
“And clearly, if there are people who have been set aside for those changes then we either have to accept it, or we don’t accept it and we run away, take our ball and start crying over spilt milk”.
Steven Woolfe Woolfe MP was the initial favourite to become the party’s next leader before campaigning got underway.
Mr Farage received a standing ovation from the conference centre as he walked out to the sound of David Bowie’s Heroes.
She will inherit a party which won 4 million votes in the 2015 national election but is now riven with factional disputes and struggling to redefine itself after achieving its main goal of triggering Britain’s exit from the EU.
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Another challenge for James will be to get more MPs into the British parliament. “When you try and bury UKIP… try to undermine us, demoralise us, demotivate us, just remember that the best ideas – which you steal – where they came from and… where they will come from again in the future”.
