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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Tuesday, September 14, 2004 

UKIP Leadership under discussion this week? - What Sykes Said!

The BBC web report on their World at One interview with multi-millionaire UKIP backer Paul Sykes, last Friday may be read from this link. The most pertinent passage is quoted below:-

Mr Sykes, who spent £800,000 on UKIP's European election campaign, was reported by the Daily Telegraph to be threatening to withdraw his financial support over the issue. "But he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One he had never "attached strings" to his political donations."

He said the party was meeting next week to discuss the leadership - and he urged it to consider changing leadership. "The party has got many members, its got many other funders, it has got some really good back room people.

"But I feel that him (Kilroy-Silk) coming to the aid of the party did definitely give us the profile to get across the message that Britain is no longer self-governing and we must return to it and get our powers back from Brussels.

"I think he articulated that message very strongly and I hope, in the fullness of time, he does become the leader, or the head man, in the campaign at the next British elections."



posted by Martin |8:15 AM
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