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UKIP founder: the party has “gone completely fruitcake”

The Daily Telegraph reports:

Professor Alan Sked, who set up the euro-sceptic party 20 years ago, believes the party has become “anti-immigrant, anti-intellectual and racist”…

“My great regret is that the party I founded has been captured by the radical Right and has gone all anti-intellectual. It’s gone completely fruitcake.”…

Prof Sked also dismisses claims that a surge of party membership to 25,800 represents a “breakthrough”. The party’s membership stood at 26,000 nine years ago.

“Ukip is for many people a stick to beat David Cameron with,” he added. “That’s what a lot of this is about.”

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