An anti-Islam campaigner vies to lead Britain’s populist right-wing party
Achieving Brexit has left the UK Independence Party with an identity crisis
EVEN by the Technicolor standards of the UK Independence Party, the crop of candidates jostling to lead it are a lively bunch. One front-runner in the contest, which will reach its climax at UKIP’s party conference next month, is best known for claiming that a homosexual donkey “tried to rape my horse”. Another complains that Frankfurt School Cultural Marxism is the greatest threat to Britain, along with the European Union and radical Islamism. UKIP’s sole Scottish MEP has said that he is entering the contest to stop the “entryists, dilettantes and single-issue loonies”.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Vote Leave, lose control”
Britain August 19th 2017
- At last Britain begins to spell out its Brexit aims
- An anti-Islam campaigner vies to lead Britain’s populist right-wing party
- From A* to grade nine: England reforms its GCSE exams
- Britons mellow on migration
- British farms learn to work with fewer seasonal migrants
- Chimes gone by
- How London threw £46m into the Thames
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