Gerard Batten | British politician | Britannica (original) (raw)

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United Kingdom Independence Party

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  In United Kingdom Independence Party: The 2017 general election and the decline of UKIP
  With the election of Gerard Batten as leader in 2018, UKIP tacked away from its libertarian roots to embrace an overt anti-Islamic stance. Farage responded by leaving the party in December of that year, and in April 2019 he launched the Brexit Party.
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  In Nigel Farage: The Brexit Party
  UKIP leader Gerard Batten dismissed the new party, calling Farage a “self-serving hypocrite,” while Farage claimed that UKIP had become a refuge for the far right. Those elections seemingly marked the end of UKIP as a political force in Britain. Its representation in the European Parliament dropped…
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