Ukip doesn’t need to win any seats to be successful says Paul Nuttall as he prepares for nationwide wipeout
The party leader insisted Ukip can still be the 'guard dogs of Brexit' despite having plunged to 2 per cent in the polls
UKIP don’t need MPs, leader Paul Nuttall claimed as he braced his party for electoral wipe-out next month.
The party has plunged to 2 per cent in the polls but he insisted Ukip can still be the “guard dogs of Brexit” without a voice in Parliament and predicted a surge in popularity after the election.
Ukip was all-but wiped out in the local elections last month as voters flocked to the Tories and that trend is expected to be matched at the election next month.
And the party is standing in just 377 seats - barely half of the country - as it struggles to find wannabe MPs and faces a funding crisis.
Asked how Ukip can still influence British politics without MPs, the under-fire Mr Nuttall said: “It doesn’t really matter how many MPs you have.
“If you think back to 2013, we forced the then British prime minister David Cameron in to offering a referendum he never wanted to give. We didn’t have an MP at that time.
“What Ukip needs to do is be electorally viable, going up in the polls, needs to be doing well in local elections and I predict after this election Ukip will go up substantially and we will do very well indeed.”
