With nominations for the Ukip leadership contest set to close at the end of the month, today Suzanne Evans called a press conference to make a ‘significant announcement’ about the future. However in light of the current hostage situation in France and Labour’s upcoming court battle, her speech failed to make it onto the news channels.
Perhaps that was for the best given that Evans — who is currently suspended from Ukip for disloyalty — used the conference to announce that she would neither be quitting the party nor running for leader. Instead, she promised to fight to make sure Ukip was a party founded on the ‘common sense centre ground’ rather than a ‘hard right Tea Party tendency’. Speaking of her disappointment at not being eligible to run for leader, she accused the NEC of behaving like the European commission and likened the party to a ‘rugby club on tour’.
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