Towards a new ‘populist’ party?: UKIP’s interim manifesto and the future of the UK radical right

Is UKIP becoming radicalised under its new leader? William Allchorn takes a look at the history of Gerard Batten’s leadership and finds that the party continues past trends of ideological nativism and authoritarianism. What has changed under Batten is that the party now has overt organisational links to the far right.