UK Independence Party (Ukip)

  • 23 Aug 2017

    The government has published two papers on its approach to the ECJ after Brexit. But there are plenty of unanswered questions. FactCheck investigates.

  • 7 Jun 2017

    The Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has accused Theresa May of arrogance, as she spoke to a final rally of supporters in Leith, declaring that the election is an opportunity to stop the Tories in their tracks. Four million Scottish voters will be heading to the polls tomorrow.

  • 26 May 2017

    The think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has said both the Conservatives and the Labour Party aren’t being honest about the economic consequences of their manifesto proposals. It didn’t look at the manifestos of the Lib Dems, Ukip and other parties. The IFS warned that the Tories’ pledges to boost NHS spending may well be…

  • 25 May 2017

    Campaigning for the General Election resumed at a national level today when the United Kingdom Independence Party launched their manifesto – having postponed it yesterday. The document promises significant increases in police and military personnel, billions extra for the NHS and a commitment to reduce net migration to zero. Yet in the light of Monday’s…

  • 15 May 2017

    Karen King, a Lib Dem councillor; Lynn Pallister, a Labour councillor; Glenn Preedy, who’s chair of UKIP North East; and Steve Turner, a Conservative councillor.

  • 6 Apr 2017

    To lose its only MP might look like misfortune – to lose an Assembly member too looks rather like chaos. Ukip has been plunged into yet more turmoil today as Welsh AM Mark Reckless announced he was leaving the party – and would be sitting with the Conservative group instead.

  • 24 Feb 2017

    Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage.

  • 1 Feb 2017

    He’s a candidate in the Stoke by-election, but  did Ukip leader Paul Nuttall break election law? He stated  on his nomination form that his current home was an address in the constituency which, he admitted to this programme today, he’d never even visited.

  • 1 Feb 2017

    Ukip leader Paul Nuttall may have broken electoral law by giving an incorrect address on his official nomination form for this month’s by-election in Stoke, Channel 4 News can reveal.

  • 22 Jan 2017

    Ukip have announced that their leader, Paul Nuttall, is to contest next month’s Stoke Central by-election in an attempt to wrest the Brexit-supporting constituency from Labour. The announcement came as reports emerged that polling in another Labour seat up for election next month – Copeland, in Cumbria – suggests that it could be captured by…

  • 13 Jan 2017

    Labour MP John Woodcock and Ukip Chairman Paul Oakden.

  • 10 Jan 2017

    Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, Clive Lewis, and Ukip MEP Patrick O’Flynn debate Corbyn’s pledges.

  • 3 Jan 2017

    Interview with former Ukip leader Nigel Farage.

  • 7 Dec 2016

    The Government’s already lost one MP over its stance on Article 50 after Stephen Phillips resigned the Lincolnshire seat of Sleaford and North Hykeham in protest at its reluctance to allow a Commons vote. Tomorrow residents in the pro- Brexit stronghold go to the polls to elect his successor.

  • 28 Nov 2016

    The outgoing Ukip leader claims to have refashioned the politics of the centre right after Brexit. Now the party’s new leader says he wants to  wipe Labour off the electoral map.