Read UKIP’s campaign policies for the Euro elections, and find out that Mexico is the way to go for Britain, according to Nigel Farage and his not so angry old men. The main plank of the UK Independence Party’s manifesto for the European elections 2009 is: “The UK Independence Party believes that the UK should withdraw from the European Union and that our membership should be rep...

1    NAME The official name of the Party shall be the UK Independence Party, or UKIP, or Independence, legally known as the United Kingdom Independence Party, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Party'. 2    AIMS 2.1    The principal aim of the Party is that the United Kingdom ("UK") shall again be governed by laws made to suit its own needs ...

The UK Independence Party has had a makeover. Go to their website and you will find a fetching new logo involving butterflies. Their point is to emphasise independence as a theme: not just the independence of the state, but also the independence of the citizen from the state. It's potentially a very powerful combination. A similar formula was adopted by my favourite political party in the wo...

Just received from Tim Worstall in the UKIP Press Office... UKIP is being inundated with calls from voters complaining that UKIP is not on the ballot paper. Voting has only been going on for three hours and already hundreds are calling the UK Independence Party to complain that they were not able to vote for the party. The problem is that Returning Officers have been folding the ballot papers. The...

Young Independence is a site supported by the UKIP (UK Independence) political party. It aims to provide young people under the age of 35 with a forum for political debate in order to increase political engagement amongst this age group. The website includes press releases, policy statements and blogs maintained by UKIP supporters, many of which are critical of EU policies and institutions and its...

I've been and will continue to be a little too busy to blog properly this weekend, and I'm doing the Blogpower round-up tomorrow. But it's well worth pointing you in the direction of this very interesting post over at the Devil's Kitchen on the situation in the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Tim Worstall has been at the UKIP conference this week, and has posted on some of the more notable developme...

Poll puts United Kingdom Independence party on 15%, compared to 3% for British National party The UK Independence party rather than the BNP appears to be the main beneficiary of public disillusionment with the political elite, according to polling this week. In a YouGov survey for the Sun published today, 15% of voters said they would vote Ukip in the coming European elections and 3% for the far-r...

What a difference five years make. The morning after the previous European elections, the UK Independence Party (Ukip) was emerging as a significant force, the third-biggest British political troop in Europe.

The treasurer of the UK Independence Party has resigned following a disagreement with a colleague. Marta Andreasen, who in 2002 was sacked as European Commission chief accountant after criticising its practices, has run UKIP's finances for two years. Ms Andreasen, who became a Euro MP this year, fell out with party chairman Paul Nuttall over an internal staffing issue. UKIP leader Nigel Farage...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch a leading peer who left the Conservative party over Europe is to stand for the leadership of the UK Independence Party Ukip the Daily Telegraph can reveal.