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Police deny Ukip claims Have I Got News For You breached election rules

on Apr 30, 2015 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

Ukip accusations that comments made about partly leader Nigel Farage on BBC satire panel show Have I Got News For You broke election law, have failed to spark a police investigation.

Journalist Camilla Long on the Friday (24 April) show claimed that Nigel Farage, who is running for the constituency of South Thanet in Kent, hardly ever visited the seat.

Her statement read: “I went there more than Nigel Farage, by the time I arrived there he’d only been a few times,” was, according to Ukip, “inaccurate” and breached the BBC’s Representation of the People Act concerning general election impartiality.

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Source: The Drum