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20/09/2013
Nigel Farage Outlines EU Membership Referendum Plans
Nigel Farage has used his address to the UKIP's annual conference to call the UK to leave the European Union, saying that leaving the union would "open a door to the world".
Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, also predicted that his party would cause a "political earthquake" in next years European elections, and that by 2015 UKIP membership would overtake the Liberal Democrats.
Mr Farage used his speech to highlight a plan to turn next years EU elections into a "referendum on EU membership".
Under Farage the party came second in the 2009 European elections and took hundreds of seat in local elections in the UK in May.
He is quoted as saying: "My ambition and my conviction is that we can come first across the United Kingdom.
"Let us send an earthquake through Westminster politics and lets say we want our country back."
(MH/CD)
Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, also predicted that his party would cause a "political earthquake" in next years European elections, and that by 2015 UKIP membership would overtake the Liberal Democrats.
Mr Farage used his speech to highlight a plan to turn next years EU elections into a "referendum on EU membership".
Under Farage the party came second in the 2009 European elections and took hundreds of seat in local elections in the UK in May.
He is quoted as saying: "My ambition and my conviction is that we can come first across the United Kingdom.
"Let us send an earthquake through Westminster politics and lets say we want our country back."
(MH/CD)
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A man who threw eggs at Nigel Farage during the politician's campaign visit to Nottingham has been charged. According to reports, 33-year-old Frederick Glenister was charged in connection with the alleged assault in Wheeler Gate in the city at around 1.30pm on Thursday. He has been released on bail and will appear before city magistrates on 22 May.
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UKIP's Farage Walks From Plane Crash
Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party, walked away with minor injuries suffered in a plane crash, shortly after voting started today. Mr Farage, an outspoken member of the European Parliament, was in a light aircraft which crash-landed at an airfield in Northamptonshire, north of London, as he toured the constituency of Buckingham.
UKIP's Farage Walks From Plane Crash
Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party, walked away with minor injuries suffered in a plane crash, shortly after voting started today. Mr Farage, an outspoken member of the European Parliament, was in a light aircraft which crash-landed at an airfield in Northamptonshire, north of London, as he toured the constituency of Buckingham.
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01 June 2004
Beware 'extremists', Tories urge ahead of Euro poll
Tory leader Michael Howard has appealed to UK voters to reject "extremist" alternatives – such as the UK Independence Party – for June's European elections. Mr Howard is keen not to leak Eurosceptic votes to the UKIP and appealed for Conservatives to rally behind his party's vision of Europe - which he declared "puts Britain first".
Beware 'extremists', Tories urge ahead of Euro poll
Tory leader Michael Howard has appealed to UK voters to reject "extremist" alternatives – such as the UK Independence Party – for June's European elections. Mr Howard is keen not to leak Eurosceptic votes to the UKIP and appealed for Conservatives to rally behind his party's vision of Europe - which he declared "puts Britain first".
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