Leader of anti-EU UKIP Party quits after election failure

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Leader of anti-EU UKIP Party quits after election failure

 

Paul Nuttal, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party speaks during a press conference at Boston West Golf Club to announce his resignation, Britain, June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Paul Childs

 

The leader of the anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) Paul Nuttall said on Friday he would resign after the party failed to win any lawmakers in the British parliament and saw its vote share fall dramatically.

 

UKIP, which under its most prominent former leader Nigel Farage helped secure Britain's exit from the European Union, was seen as increasingly irrelevant during the campaign, with many of its voters deserting the party.

 

"I am standing down today as the leader of UKIP with immediate effect. This will allow the party to have a new leader in place by the conference in September," Nuttall said.

 

Farage earlier hinted he might return to front-line politics.

 

(Reporting by Costas Pitas; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-6-9

[brewsterbudgen]

UKIP are, thankfully, irrelevent.

[PremiumLane]

It's Eddie Hitler 

[nontabury]

Nigel Farage is predicting that the political stablishment may try to backslide on Brexit. He then went on to imply, that if that is so, he will more than likely return to lead UKIP.  This prospect is sure to put the shxts up our unprincipled politicitions. 

[brewsterbudgen]

Nigel Farage is predicting that the political stablishment may try to backslide on Brexit. He then went on to imply, that if that is so, he will more than likely return to lead UKIP.  This prospect is sure to put the shxts up our unprincipled politicitions. 

Haha. The return of Farage will be a joke. What will he return to lead? UKIP are finished.

[nontabury]

In the late 90's The establishment thought he was a joke. Yet he had the laugh on them. Either the British people obtain Brexit, or he'll be back to lead a movement that will deliver our exit from the undemocratic Bureacrats in Brussels.