UKIP's success will force PM even further to the right

Buoyed by election success, Nigel Farage says 'reverse takeover' of Tory party is on cards

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THE stunning success of UKIP in claiming 26 per cent of the vote in the local elections and the South Shields by-election is piling pressure on David Cameron to lurch further to the right.

Basking in the glow of historic gains in the Tory shires, UKIP's leader Nigel Farage told the BBC's Today programme he wanted to engineer a reverse takeover of the Conservative Party.

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