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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8806

14 October 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/pes/ukip
Richard Corbett slams UK Independence Party's slide to extremism

Brussels, 13/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - The twelve UKIP (UK Independence Party) members who have seats at the European Parliament within the Independence and Democracy Group, conceal under an apparently single issue programme not only anti-Europeanism but also a "very right wing agenda". Also, as Commissioner Chris Patten puts it, they form a "particularly unattractive" xenophobic group. This was what British Labour member Richard Corbett told reporters on Tuesday in Brussels when he...

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