Nigel Farage quits UKIP over far-right turn

Party leader Gerard Batten’s hiring of Tommy Robinson a bridge too far for Farage

Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage has quit the party
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Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has announced that he is quitting the party, citing the party’s turn towards the far-right in recent times.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Farage said that he was doing so with a “heavy heart”, naming the presence of “several angry young men, red in the face and mildly abusive, who all seemed to be obsessed with Islam and Tommy Robinson”.

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