Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

Are reports of a Ukip split greatly exaggerated?

Day two of the Ukip conference, and the placid mood continues. Delegates seem very content with the speeches that they’ve heard from Douglas Carswell, Patricia Culligan, Janice Atkinson and Diane James. They wee particularly entertained by Atkinson, who spent a great deal of her speech talking about Harriet Harman, and criticising the other parties’ policies for women. They were very happy when Culligan described reforms to Ofsted that will mean children will be allowed to celebrate nativity plays (something that might have come as a surprise to a number of parents). And Diane James delivered a speech better than the sort of stuff you’d expect from many a junior minister.


It is quite striking that Carswell didn’t attend yesterday’s conference, only coming down to speak today because he had to be elsewhere.

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