UK Independence Party | |
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Abbreviation | UKIP |
Leader | Vacant |
Deputy Leader | Nick Tenconi |
Chairman | Ben Walker |
Deputy Chair | Vacant |
General Secretary | Donald Mackay |
Founder | Alan Sked |
Founded | 3 September 1993 |
Preceded by | Anti-Federalist League |
Headquarters | Lexdrum House Unit 1 King Charles Business Park Old Newton Road Heathfield Newton Abbot TQ12 6UT[1] |
Youth wing | Young Independence |
Membership (2020) | ![]() |
Ideology | Hard Euroscepticism[3] Right-wing populism[4] Economic liberalism[5] British nationalism[6] |
Political position | Right-wing[7] to far-right[8][9] (2018–present) Historical: Single-issue (1993–1997) Right-wing[10] (1997–2018) |
International affiliation | None |
Colours | Purple, yellow |
Local government[11] | 0 / 18,725 |
Website | |
ukip |
The United Kingdom Independence Party (often called UKIP, said "you-kipp") is a political party in the United Kingdom. Its policies promote conservatism, national conservatism, and Euroscepticism.
The party was founded in 1993, and they first won seats in the European Parliament in 1999. They won 3 seats in 1999, which was increased to 12 in 2004 and 13 in 2009. It is now 9. The party does not do well under Britain's 'First-past-the-post' system of elections and only had one seat in the British House of Commons, although they received 3.8 million votes (12.6% of the total vote) at the 2015 UK general election.
Supporters of UKIP mostly believe in the following things:
In 2008 UKIP banned people who used to be members of the British National Party (BNP) from joining.
On 9 October 2014 Douglas Carswell became UKIP's first elected MP.[12] Carswell quit the party in March 2017.[13]
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