Ukip’s party conference is underway in Doncaster. The party is hoping for an event that runs more smoothly than last year, where Nigel Farage sacked Godfrey Bloom for hitting a journalist and calling women ‘sluts’. It certainly has more in its favour this time around, with Tory defector Douglas Carswell to address the conference ahead of what looks like a victory in the Clacton by-election. But there are also rumours that two more Conservative MPs are about to defect.
Adam Holloway’s name was winging round the lobby today, but he says he won’t be going anywhere because he is terrified of the prospect of a Labour government. He said:
‘I’d much rather be in coalition with Ukip than the Lib Dems but I’m not going to defect.’
None of the other MPs Coffee House spoke to this afternoon said they were going to defect, but then they would say that, wouldn’t they? Douglas Carswell’s departure came out of the blue. Someone
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