This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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USA: Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…The race to become Ukip’s next leader has kick started as both presumed frontrunners, Paul Nuttall and Suzanne Evans, officially announced to run for the top job in the party. However, the announcement by Suzanne Evans was immediately met with a rebuke from the party’s outgoing figurehead, Nigel Farage, who declared that he could not vote for her.
A former Conservative councillor who helped draft Ukip’s 2015 election manifesto, Evans, made the announcement during an appearance on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show and declared herself “the right person to lead Ukip into the challenges ahead” and to champion the cause of continued Brexit. In her remarks, Evans alleged that “with me at the helm, I’m absolutely confident that we will be able to reach out to voters on both the left and the right of politics,” adding that “perhaps at times there’s been a bit too much testosterone in Ukip”.
In response to an inquiry about former aide to Farage who now edits the UK arm of the Donald-Trump-backing rightwing US news website Breitbart, Raheem Kassa, Evans stated that Kassam was on the “far right wing” and stressed that Ukip did not need a “fresh injection of toxicity.” Soon after the statement, Farage appeared on ITV’s Peston and responded that “for her to talk about the party being toxic, for her to already declare one of the candidates who is running, Raheem Kassam, as being far-right, I don’t view this as being a very good start.” Farage highlighted that “I have to say they are the sort of things she said to me – after the general election, she said to me I shouldn’t take any part at all in the referendum campaign, I was toxic, immigration shouldn’t be discussed with the British public. I think she has been in the wrong place ever since that.”
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