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Ukip's founder says the party has gone 'completely fruitcake'
The UK Independence Party has "gone completely fruitcake" and is doomed to remain on the
political sidelines, its founder and first leader has said.
Leader of UKIP Nigel Farage, reacts as he looks at the latest edition of Private eye magazine during
a visit to Ramsey in Cambridgeshire while on the local election campaign trail
Professor Alan Sked, who set up the euro-sceptic party 20 years ago, believes the party has become
"anti-immigrant, anti-intellectual and racist".
In an interview with *The Sunday Telegraph* the historian also revealed that he once expelled Nigel Farage,
the party's ebullient leader.
Now widely considered a growing force in British politics, Ukip won 23 per cent of the vote in last month's
local elections. The party has come second in three recent by-elections and may even win next year's European
elections.
Many Conservative MPs fear Nigel Farage's party could split the right wing vote at the next election and cost David
Cameron a majority in 2015.
However, the historian who launched Ukip in September 1993 believes the party's surge has been exaggerated.
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