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Nigel Farage smiles while looking out from behind a window covered with purple and yellow signs reading Thank you for voting UKIP at a UKIP campaign office. Nigel Farage stands in front of and gestures toward a UKIP campaign poster reading Breaking Point with an image of a large crowd of people, highlighting immigration concerns before Brexit. Map of the United Kingdom showing regional results of the 2016 EU Referendum. Scotland, Northern Ireland, and London are shaded blue to indicate a majority voted to remain in the European Union, while the rest of England and Wales are shaded red to show a majority voted to leave.
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Nigel Farage smiles while looking out from behind a window covered with purple and yellow signs reading Thank you for voting UKIP at a UKIP campaign office.
Nigel Farage and the United Kingdom Independence Party United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage looking out the window of the UKIP campaign office in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England, after the party won its first seat in the British Parliament, October 2014.

United Kingdom Independence Party

political party, United Kingdom
Also known as: UKIP
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Michael Ray
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United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), British political party founded in 1993. It espouses a populist libertarian philosophy centred on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. The party has its roots in the Anti-Federalist League, a group led by London School of Economics professor Alan Sked that campaigned against the 1991 Maastricht Treaty on European Union. Sked founded UKIP in 1993, following Britainā€™s ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, the document that established...

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