Patrick O’Flynn has surfaced to explain his remarks about Nigel Farage and the team around him. On Sky News, O’Flynn denied he was gunning for Farage’s position, describing him as ‘my political hero’, but blamed a ‘couple of people in his inner circle’ who he said are ‘wrong ‘uns’:
‘The advisers he’s got around him have got an awful lot to account for… some people around him who would like to take Ukip in the direction of some hard right ultra-aggressive American Tea Party-type movement.
‘Ukip will prosper and has prospered when it positions itself in the common sense centre of British politics, as we did with our excellent election manifesto, and when Nigerl Farage leads it from the centre of the party, or perhaps just to the right of centre of the party. People who want to get rid of the National Health Service or liberalise gun laws or whatever other US imports they want to peddle for their own agendas should go and set up a party to push that line and see how they get on, because I predict it won’t be well.’
Those on Team Farage aren’t very happy with his, with one source commenting ‘is this behaviour truly befitting of an elected MEP?’ But it looks like O’Flynn might get his way: the party’s secretary Matt Richardson has offered his resignation, according to Guido.
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