UKIP rules out forming any election pact with Conservatives

Nigel Farage centre and newly elected Ukip MP Douglas Carswell right joins party member Mark Reckless on Rochester High Street

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Nigel Farage centre and newly elected Ukip MP Douglas Carswell right joins party member Mark Reckless on Rochester High StreetU.K. Independence Party has dismissed the calls of the party entering into any form of election pact with the Conservatives and expressed intentions to target “everybody in this campaign”.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage and the first ever elected Ukip member in British Parliament Douglas Carswell hit the campaign trail in Rochester and Strood in the fight to rally support for another Tory defector Mark Reckless.

While addressing supporters in the Kent constituency, Mr Farage has said: “Let’s make the people’s army of Ukip march on Rochester and Strood.”

Prime Minister David Cameron is facing mounted pressure from backbenchers to consider some form of electoral pact with Ukip at the general election 2015. The calls were made following the anti-EU and anti-immigration party’s milestone victory in the Clacton by-election where Tory defector Douglas Carswell became the party’s first elected MP earlier on Friday.

But Mr Farage has rejected the notion insisting that the party was “not a splinter” of the Tories.

The Ukip leader has told: “If I was to call a silence and ask our activist here now whether they wanted a pre-election pact with the Conservatives I think I would need to be bundled into that room for my own safety.”

He has added: “This party is not a splinter of the Conservative party. This party is its own organic force.

“We want to win our own representation in Westminster and we believe only by doing that can we fundamentally change British politics.

“To sell out so that one or two people can have ministerial positions is not what Ukip’s about.

“I don’t trust David Cameron. I don’t believe a word David Cameron says and for that reason it would be fruitless to even enter into any negotiation.”

Mr Farage has responded to the Tory leader’s claim that if you vote for Farage, you’ll end up with Ed Miliband as PM, saying: “What we saw in Clacton was very clear. The people voted Ukip and they got Ukip.”

After an impressive win in Clacton, Mr Farage has also hinted that more defections could also happen in future, from the left as well as the right.

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