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Not really good news - they’ve been squeezed out by the VoteLeave Tory Party occupying their territory. It was better when they could be written off as the lunatic fringe.
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This ^^
Tories repeatedly tried to neutralise UKIP by adopting its language and positioning but ended up getting UKIPd. Especially once Johnson culled the anti-brexit tories.
It's a lesson for Labour: You can't try to appease anti-foreign sentiment (either anti-EU or anti-immigration) and hoping it will go away as you just end up feeding it.
nonowt
At last, some good news amongst all of the doom and gloom:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65538114