One reason that Ukip seems rather quiet at the moment is that it doesn’t have very much policy to talk about. And one reason for that is that there’s a row going on over the slow progress of the party’s manifesto. The Times today says Ukip has sacked Tim Aker from writing the manifesto – as Seb pointed out recently, he did have rather a lot to do, what with being a Ukip councillor, fighting for the party in a marginal seat and writing the manifesto – because he was running behind deadline.
But one thing we can be certain of is that Ukip’s manifesto, when it does come out, will play super-safe on the NHS. In the interview with the BBC in which he suggests the NHS could yet be replaced by a private insurance system, the Ukip leader also makes it quite clear that the rest of his party don’t want that view in its election campaign literature.
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