William Hill UKIP seats after next General ElectionNONE 10/11ONE 13/82+ 7/2 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 28, 2016 William Hill believe offering odds of 4/11(73% chance) that new UKIP leader Nuttall will still be in post in 2018 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 28, 2016
BREXIT means no UKIP MEPs from 2019 Today marks another new chapter in UKIP’s short history with the election by a substantial majority of members of Paul Nuttall as party leader. He’s from the North West and has a very different back story than the public-school former city trader, Nigel Farage, that he replaces. Nuttall said his first objective was to take the battle to Labour which under Corbyn has looked weaker and extremely vulnerable particularly in its heartlands. If…
29% of those who’ve served as UKIP MEPs since 2009 have either been expelled or quit This afternoon’s big news from UKIP has been that Diane James, who won the November leadership contest only to pull out after 18 days, has now quit the party. She wants to remain as an MEP and is hoping to sit as an independent. She came to the forefront in February 2013, when she got very close in the Eastleigh by-election beating the Tories…
His first challenge: planning for the loss of all UKIP’s MEPs The UKIP leadership race is down to four with Paul Nuttall the 1/4 odds-on favourite. It is hard to see anyone beating him. The Merseysider has been a growing force within the party and the hope is that he will help UKIP challenge in Labour strongholds in the north. Certainly he’s an increasingly confident media performer and will set a different tone from Nigel Farage. Second in the betting…
Detailed analysis of the issues and the numbers A huge amount has happened in UK politics since the last show two weeks ago and joining Keiran Pedley (@KeiranPedley) are Asa Bennett (@AsaBenn) of the Telegraph and Leo Barasi (@leobarasi) of noiseofthecrowd.com BREXIT still totally dominates UK politics and the programme seeks to look at its likely impact in the by-election and, of course, the impact on the differents part of the UK. Another area for analysis is Labour’s polling plight…
Latest UKIP betting across range of bookies. It looks like Nuttall v Evans pic.twitter.com/19dPRWiKBT — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 25, 2016 What Raheem Kassam Tweeted about Nicola Sturgeon Inside the mind of UKIP leadership contender Raheem Kassam. A Tweet, via @AdamBienkov he sent in June – now deleted. pic.twitter.com/fvZUcf4sga — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 23, 2016 And others.. Raheem Kassam says his many tweets like this were "acerbic and a bad joke …I've said some bad things & I'm sorry"…
UKIP's Steven Woolfe quits the party, with statement that it is 'ungovernable' without @Nigel_Farage at the helm https://t.co/x5PeXPkEVj — Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) October 17, 2016
EXCLUSIVE – Ukip leader Diane James' statement to The Times on her resignation tonight. pic.twitter.com/lpuSk9cTiN — Lucy Fisher (@LOS_Fisher) October 4, 2016 THIS IS NOT A JOKE: UKIP source telling me @Nigel_Farage could technically STILL be leader as @DianeJamesMEP papers not submitted properly. — Darren McCaffrey (@DarrenEuronews) October 4, 2016 Next #UKIP leader; latest odds from Ladbrokes. pic.twitter.com/DvcgEioisX — Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) October 4, 2016 Apparently Diane James has resigned. I have food in my fridge that went out of…