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How to fight Ukip

Cameron's every move seems to play into Farage's hands

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

In the 2005 general election this magazine supported the Conservatives, with one exception — we urged voters in Medway not to vote for a deeply unimpressive Tory candidate by the name of Mark Reckless. Our then political editor, Peter Oborne, went so far as to write a pamphlet in support of the Labour rival, Bob Marshall Andrews, who had a commendable record of sticking it to Tony Blair.

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