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United Kingdom Independence Party
political party, United Kingdom
Quick Facts
- Date:
- 1993 - present
- Areas Of Involvement:
- libertarianism
- Euroskepticism
- Related People:
- Nigel Farage
United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), British political party founded in 1993. It espouses a populist libertarian philosophy centred on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. The party has its roots in the Anti-Federalist League, a group led by London School of Economics professor Alan Sked that campaigned against the 1991 Maastricht Treaty on European Union. Sked founded UKIP in 1993, following Britain’s ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, the document that established the European Union. UKIP fielded nearly 200 candidates in the 1997 general election, but the party fared poorly, averaging only about 1 percent of the ...(100 of 1477 words)