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UKIP Dept: I used to be a Tory for 25 years, said White, 44. Now I ve changed my political support 100 per cent. , according to The Star. UKIP was founded in 1993 as a hardline protest party, according to its current head, Nigel Farage . But 20 years later, UKIP has overtaken the Conservative and Labour parties to place second in this southern town byelection Thursday, just 5 per cent short of winning. It the third time in as many months that the party taken second place and eASTLEIGH, ENGLAND Graham White gleams over the 10 purple-and-yellow election signs splayed across the face of his narrow Victorian row house. The signs are for the UK Independence Party, or UKIP , a populist anti-EU movement that has jumped from obscurity to shape the country politics. White is among thousands of Britons who have switched from the country three main parities to support what The New Statesman calls Britain Tea Party. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.