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Carswell's Defection: Has UKIP Had It?
The Week UK
|April 01, 2017
“Douglas Carswell was once the golden boy of UKIP,” said Tim Stanley in The Sunday Telegraph: “its first elected MP, its brightest intellect, its shot at respectability.”
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In 2014, he defected from the Conservatives – triggering, and easily winning, a by-election in his Essex seat of Clacton. But last week, he left UKIP to sit as an independent MP (he said that he would not call a by-election, since he is not joining another party). “In hindsight, his resignation was inevitable from the very beginning.” Carswell was certainly a “passionate” Eurosceptic, but he wasn’t anti-immigration: he fought against UKIP’s more xenophobic tendencies. And his relations with Nigel Farage were strained from the start, when they fell out over Carswell’s refusal to claim a £650,000 parliamentary subsidy for UKIP. More recently, Carswell apparently refused to lobby for Farage’s longed-for knigh
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