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Who votes for Ukip? Farage says a Ukip voter is “aspirational”. “The people who get up earliest in the morning have the highest propensity to vote Ukip. I’m being absolutely serious about that. A lot of these people are in jobs where they’re driving, or working on building sites, or running a small carpentry business, or whatever they’re doing; they tend to be people whose political backgrounds from their parents and grandparents would be red and blue – there’d be bits of both. A lot of them haven’t voted for anybody since the early to mid-Nineties. For some, Major was the last vote; for some, Blair was the last vote. So that’s the other aspect of our vote, and that’s the one thing we have in common with [Alex] Salmond, that we’re beginning to bring people back into politics. And that’s very interesting.
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