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What Ukip wants: get Farage elected, then prepare for a Labour collapse in the north

It all hinges on Farage winning South Thanet. But what if he doesn’t?

7 March 2015

9:00 AM

7 March 2015

9:00 AM

In Ukip’s Mayfair headquarters there is a copy of Banksy’s monkey with the sign around its neck: ‘Laugh now, but one day we’ll be in charge’. It seems appropriate. For years, Nigel Farage and his party were dismissed as a bunch of cranks. Within three months, they could be propping up David Cameron’s government, having named their price — perhaps an EU referendum before the year is out.

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