School of Politics and International Relations

Professor Tim Bale, Should Ukip just dissolve itself?

1 March 2017

Tim Bale provides a comment for City A.M.’s question on whether Ukip should dissolve itself: “There are at least a couple of reasons not to call it a day. For one thing, for those who want out of the EU and a big fall in immigration, Ukip’s continued presence ensures that Theresa May’s feet are held to the fire. For another, there are a whole bunch of voters who simply don’t feel represented by either of the two main parties: to them, the Tories are still too keen on shrinking the state while Labour is too politically correct. Ukip won the support of nearly 4m voters in 2015 – and polls don’t suggest they’ve given up on it yet.”
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