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Farage: July 2015 referendum is my price for propping up Tories
Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, will prop up a Conservative minority government in exchange for a referendum on EU membership in July 2015
By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent
4:05PM BST 12 Oct 2014
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Nigel Farage will demand a referendum on EU membership next July as the "price" for propping up a minority Conservative government.
Ukip MPs would support the Tories in the event of a hung Parliament under a confidence and supply arrangement in exchange for an in-out referendum being brought forward by two years, Mr Farage said.
The party believes it can win at least half a dozen, and even as many as 25, seats at the general election. Polling for the Mail on Sunday puts Ukip on a record 25 per cent.
That would give Ukip the “balance of power”, which Mr Farage has said he would use to prop up a minority government on votes of confidence and key bills, rather than entering a full coalition.
In exchange he would demand Mr Cameron brings forward his 2017 referendum by two years, he revealed today, saying the vote had been “kicked into the long grass”.
“The price would be a full, free and fair referendum on our continued membership of the European Union: the opportunity to get our country back. And for that to happen quickly,” he said.
“I’m not prepared to wait for three years. I want to have a referendum on this great question next year, and if Ukip can maintain its momentum and get enough seats in Westminster, we might be able to achieve that.”
“Some time in July next year strikes me as a very good time to do this," he told the BBC.
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