Can Ukip bloom into a serious political force?

'Mention Michael Crick again and you won't be smiling'

After spending last Saturday at the Green Party conference in Brighton, I stayed closer to home this week and popped along to Westminster for the second day of Ukip's get together.

Alas, I missed the Bloom fireworks of Friday, but did manage to speak lots of Ukip members.

Read my interview with Nigel Farage.

And here is my opinion piece for the Express Online.

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