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Daily Mail
January 2, 2014
The UK Independence Party has benefited from a surge in membership in the last 12 months as Conservative numbers have dipped, it emerged yesterday.
Ukip now has 32,500 members – up from 19,500 last January.
Nigel Farage’s party has been advancing in the polls and has been tipped to beat the Conservatives in the European elections to be held in May.
Conservative constituency membership has almost halved since David Cameron became leader in 2005 – from 253,600 to just 134,000.
Mr Farage said Ukip was re-engaging people who had given up on politics.
He added: ‘Many of our members are those who have never been a member of any political party before, but who see that it is Ukip who is challenging the establishment on issues such as open-door immigration, grammar schools and green taxes.’
If Ukip has a similar surge in membership over the coming year, it could overtake the Liberal Democrats in its grassroots’ support.
The number of Lib Dems is at 43,000, more than a third lower than the 65,000 it had in 2010.
Support for Labour has also slipped back to 187,537, down from when Ed Miliband became leader in 2010.
