“I’m not that interested in Nigel Farage,” Ed Miliband said recently when asked about the Ukip leader. But to paraphrase Trotsky on the dialectic, Farage is certainly interested in him – and in his voters. The Ukip leader has made it clear that he believes there are few Conservative voters left for his party to win over and that his focus is on attracting supporters from Labour. With Ukip taking the lead in the most recent European election polls, he appears to be having some success.
In response, ahead of its campaign launch tomorrow, Labour is stepping up its Ukip attack. In an article in today’s Daily Mirror, Miliband denounces the party’s policies as “more Thatcherite than Lady Thatcher herself.”
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