Even the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), a small anti-EU group, has been cunningly sidetracked.

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The anti-European United Kingdom Independence Party will also run, and is likely to attract voters who might otherwise back the Tories.

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According to returns Friday from 34 contests across England, the right-wing United Kingdom Independence Party, or UKIP, won 139 county council seats, while the mainstream opposition Labour Party gained 291.

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These ranged from the eccentric United Kingdom Independence Party and Geert Wilders's Freedom Party in the Netherlands, which both came second in their national polls, to Hungary's anti-gypsy Jobbik party and the Pirate Party in Sweden.

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The, the Tories want to keep the pound, William Hague is adamant that Britain should be in Europe but not Europe and going one step further the United Kingdom Independence Party wants, no messing about here, wants Britain to pull out of Europe altogether, is this a sustainable platform on which to run an election campaign.

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