Um resultado que certamente levará David Cameron a reconsiderar a sua política europeia, ainda que provavelmente não no sentido desejado pelos sociais-democratas euro-entusiastas dos vários partidos da Europa continental: Local elections 2013: Nigel Farage’s Ukip surges to best ever showing, winning 150 seats
Nigel Farage, the party’s leader, was jubilant after it emerged that one in four voters supported Ukip in the elections in 35 councils in England and Wales.
The rise of the party cost the Conservatives three local authorities, although Ukip did not win control of any councils.
The party was even second in the South Shields by-election in the north east of England, where the Tories were third and the Liberal Democrats a distant seventh.
By late on Friday Ukip had seen 147 councillors elected, of whom 139 were gains. The party had several hundred candidates in second place candidates. More than one million people voted for Ukip, according to a party spokesman.
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