Nigel Farage says his party is in talks with a number of Conservative associations about a joint endorsement with UKIP. He told the Daily Politics today that ‘there is no doubt that there are Tory associations, and one Labour that I know of, who are saying “look, the law was changed two years ago, there is a provision now, that one candidate can have the endorsement of two political parties, i.e. two logos on the ballot paper”‘. Farage added that ‘there are associations out there that I believe want this’.
Freshly returned to the Tory benches, Nadine Dorries made the case for this in yesterday’s Sun on Sunday. She wrote:
‘In fact, smart Conservative MPs should begin to sound out their local association and begin to have the conversation “there may need to be three of us in this marriage” and moot the possibility of Conservative MPs being elected with a double endorsement, Conservative and UKIP.
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