The Facilitated Rise of UKIP and How Economic Discontent Ignited the British Populist Flame
INTRODUCTION Will Oliver -- EPA/Alamy The United Kingdom Independence Party, also known as UKIP, is an established right-wing populist party in the United Kingdom. In a country that has embraced the long-standing political competition between the Conservative Party and the Labour Party, seeing UKIP’s rise in its influence during the 2016 European Union membership referendum marked the growing influence of right-wing populism in the UK. The party’s success may be attributed to