Election 2015: UKIP reveals five key pledges for Britain
NIGEL Farage insisted yesterday that Ukip represents modern Britain – and said millions of voters back his five key election pledges.
He launched Ukip’s “pledge card” promising to quit the EU, control borders, pump £3billion into the NHS, slash foreign aid and charge no tax on the minimum wage.
Mr Farage said: “Unless we govern our own country, frankly many other debates are irrelevant.
“We want to be friendly with Europe, trade with Europe – but make our own laws. We don’t find the fact that 75 per cent of our legislation is made somewhere else acceptable.”
On immigration, he said: “You cannot have an immigration policy, you cannot control numbers, as members of the European Union.” Mr Farage also insisted Ukip was no longer a one-man band.
“We’ve got all shades of opinion – we’ve got people from the Left, people from the Right, people of all ages, all classes, all races,” he said. “We are quite reflective now as a party of what modern Britain is.”
Mr Farage said he faced a “hell of a fight” to become an MP in South Thanet, Kent. He said it was “almost impossible” for the Conservatives or Labour to have a clear majority after the election, adding: “If people want to vote Ukip to hold the balance of power, that is what they will do.”
He also implied he has had talks on working with anti-EU Tory MPs.
“We are committed to using whatever influence we have in Parliament,” he said. Mr Farage will today attack David Cameron’s failure to meet his pledge to cut annual net migration to the “tens of thousands”.
