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    UK Election: The Ukip surge

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    • Wednesday, 5 October, 2016
      Feuding Ukip sees off Diane James as leader

      Steven Woolfe, favourite to replace her, says he considered defecting to the Tories

    • Wednesday, 20 May, 2015
      Nigel Farage aims to draw line under Ukip infighting

      Ukip leader says his party is ‘100 per cent united’

    • Tuesday, 19 May, 2015
      Ukip economic and policy chiefs go

      Patrick O’Flynn had labelled party leader ‘snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive’

    • Friday, 15 May, 2015
      Nigel Farage leadership farrago bedevils Ukip

      Politician accused of presiding over something close to ‘an absolutist monarchy or personality cult’

    • Thursday, 14 May, 2015
      Ukip chaos escalates as party figures turn on each other

      Donor and MEP clash after Farage’s spat with party’s only MP

    • Monday, 11 May, 2015
      UK general election
      Farage ‘returns’ as leader after Ukip refuses to accept resignation

      Party refuses to accept departure after ‘great success’ of campaign

    • Friday, 8 May, 2015
      UK general election
      Nigel Farage’s Westminster dream ends in tatters

      Ukip leader pushed the party into the mainstream but failed to win over Thanet voters

    • Friday, 8 May, 2015
      UK general election
      Nigel Farage resigns as Ukip leader following Kent defeat

      Eurosceptic party wins 12.6% of the vote but only one seat

    • Friday, 8 May, 2015
      UK Election: Future of the Lib Dems
      General election: The key seats

      A guide to constituencies that will give clues to the outcome of the closest UK election in decades

    • Wednesday, 6 May, 2015
      UK Election: Future of the Lib Dems
      Last-minute tactical voting could decide the election

      Labour leader has more potential allies in a hung parliament than Tory rival

    • Wednesday, 6 May, 2015
      UK general election
      Ukip candidate threatens to shoot Tory rival

      Robert Blay, a former Conservative, suspended after ‘abhorrent’ comments

    • Friday, 1 May, 2015
      UK general election
      General election: Ukip sets sights on Labour’s northeast heartland

      Populist upstart puts political loyalties to the test in region still smarting from industrial declineover the last 20 years

    • Friday, 24 April, 2015
      UK general election
      Tim Bale: Ukip should not be written off yet

      Farage may not be Sturgeon but neither is he Bennett

    • Thursday, 23 April, 2015
      UK general election
      General election: Testing the mood in Ukip marginal

      In the first of four FT/Populus focus groups in marginal seats, we speak to voters in Thurrock

    • Tuesday, 21 April, 2015
      UK general election
      Boris unleashed to pep up Tory campaign

      Cameron campaign critics dismissed as ‘namby pamby’ by London mayor

    • Thursday, 16 April, 2015
      The FT ViewUK general election
      Nigel Farage’s challenge to mainstream Britain

      Main parties have not confronted Ukip effectively on immigration

    • Wednesday, 15 April, 2015
      UK general election
      Rotarians, masons and 19th-hole bores turn out for Ukip manifesto

      Farage’s chief author delivers a kind of PowerPoint demonstration, without much power or point

    • Wednesday, 15 April, 2015
      UK general election
      Key points of Ukip election manifesto

      Party wants to withdraw from EU, abolish inheritance tax and scrap the HS2 rail line

    • Tuesday, 14 April, 2015
      UK general election
      General election: Ukip aims to revive flagging campaign

      Farage pledges to spend more on defence and health with savings on foreign aid, the EU and Scotland

    • Friday, 10 April, 2015
      UK general election
      Farage locked in three-way battle for political survival

      Lack of united opposition may allow Ukip leader a narrow win in South Thanet

    • Sunday, 5 April, 2015
      UK general election
      Nigel Farage falls behind in his target seat

      Ukip dismisses ‘rogue’ poll that puts leader 1 point behind Conservative rival

    • Tuesday, 31 March, 2015
      UK general election
      Ukip’s first elected MP woos Clacton voters

      Clacton’s Douglas Carswell hears mix of local and national concerns on doorsteps

    • Tuesday, 31 March, 2015
      UK general election
      Ukip’s drive to turn high hopes into Westminster seats

      Anti-EU party battles to succeed where previous smaller parties have failed

    • Monday, 30 March, 2015
      UK Election: Future of the Lib Dems
      UK general election: the 4 key battles

      A closer look at the types of constituency races that are likely to have a pivotal role in the outcome

    • Monday, 23 March, 2015
      UK general election
      Ukip commits to Nato defence target

      Party says it would allocate £16bn, in line with 2% of GDP goal set by alliance

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