After the suicide bomber had done his worse by killing 22 people and injuring many more, Britain’s anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) will make public its policy pledges come Thursday.
Votes by British citizens would begin on June 8, showing prime minister Theresa May's Conservatives comfortably ahead of the main opposition Labour Party, albeit with a narrowing lead.
At the last election in 2015, UKIP received nearly 13 per cent of the vote but picked up just one parliamentary seat due to an electoral system in 
which smaller parties with support spread across the country rather than concentrated in certain areas are at a disadvantage.
“We took the decision that the best way to show these people that we will not be beaten, that they will not win, is to get back into the saddle,” UKIP Leader Paul Nuttall said. Opinion polls providing the first insight into whether the bombing has affected voting preferences are due in the coming days. Before the attack in Manchester, May was forced to backtrack on her plan to force elderly people to pay more for their social care after her party’s opinion poll lead halved in just a few days.
Since then, the party has hemorrhaged around half of its support, losing its raison d’etre since Britons voted to leave the EU and enduring two divisive leadership battles to replace charismatic figurehead Nigel Farage. The party is focusing its campaign on its “one in, one out” promise to bring down immigration and said it would make sure the government does not backtrack on commitments such an end to the freedom of movement of people after Brexit. “UKIP is the insurance policy for the country to ensure that we get the Brexit that people voted for last year,’’ Nuttall said.
“We took the decision that the best way to show these people that we will not be beaten, that they will not win, is to get back into the saddle,” UKIP Leader Paul Nuttall said. Opinion polls providing the first insight into whether the bombing has affected voting preferences are due in the coming days. Before the attack in Manchester, May was forced to backtrack on her plan to force elderly people to pay more for their social care after her party’s opinion poll lead halved in just a few days.
Since then, the party has hemorrhaged around half of its support, losing its raison d’etre since Britons voted to leave the EU and enduring two divisive leadership battles to replace charismatic figurehead Nigel Farage. The party is focusing its campaign on its “one in, one out” promise to bring down immigration and said it would make sure the government does not backtrack on commitments such an end to the freedom of movement of people after Brexit. “UKIP is the insurance policy for the country to ensure that we get the Brexit that people voted for last year,’’ Nuttall said.
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