Tory defections to UKIP
I haven't seen a great deal of blog comment on this potentially interesting story. Basically four Tory peers were stripped of the Conservative whip last week for endorsing the UKIP in the forthcoming elections. Add to this the most recent YouGov poll, which showed that surging UKIP support was at the cost of Tory votes, and you have the recipe for a political crisis.According to today's Telegraph Michael Howard is going to 'halt Tory desertions' by making a more virulenty anti-European speech. Would you ever had believed that from the most principled politician of our generation? Well obviously yes, but to his credit he has started (or his aides have) using the language the rest of us do about the UKIP, as witnessed in Johann Hari's column I linked to last week.
posted by Matthew @ 6/01/2004 08:39:00 AM
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