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Why it won’t be Ukip’s fault if Cameron loses

Lord Pearson, Ukip’s former leader, on the deal that might have saved the Tories from coalition

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

How odd that David Cameron is still threatening us with ‘Vote Ukip, get Labour’, even after the Heywood and Middleton by-election, which Ukip nearly won with thousands of Labour defections. But if the Conservatives do lose the next election by a Ukip-sized margin then Cameron has only himself to blame — for the second time in a row.

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Malcolm Pearson, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, was leader of Ukip from November 2009 until September 2010.


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