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LABOUR South Thanet candidate Will Scobie predicted yesterday that Ukip’s party will be over if he keeps Nigel Farage out of Parliament.
Mr Scobie is stepping up his campaign with a “Rally for the Future” in Ramsgate today as he seeks to make decent jobs and low pay — rather than immigration — the decisive election issues.
He told the Star: “Farage has said he will no longer be Ukip leader if he doesn’t win here.
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL