Nigel Farage’s Tory 'fifth columnists’ are helping no one but Ed Miliband
It’s hard to explain why so many Conservative MPs are secretly – or openly – on Ukip’s side

A number of Tory MPs actually went to the astonishing length of sending messages of congratulations to Douglas Carswell for his, and Ukip's, triumph at Clacton Photo: Will Oliver/EPA
By Peter Oborne
6:15AM BST 16 Oct 2014
It is just two weeks since David Cameron delivered one of the best political speeches I have ever heard. In Birmingham, he set out the (in many ways astonishing) achievements of his Government, while capably demolishing the electoral pretensions of Labour.
Mr Cameron concluded with the warning that a vote for Nigel Farage is, in effect, a vote for Ed Miliband. He rightly received rave reviews – all the more glowing when compared with Ed Miliband the week before.
The Prime Minister had provided the Conservative Party with a route map to general election victory. Tory morale has rarely been higher than in the immediate aftermath of that speech. Yet already, it is in collapse.
The Ukip triumph in Clacton has led to a meltdown in party discipline of a kind that I have never witnessed before – not even during the darkest days of the Maastricht rebellion against John Major. Conservative MPs are openly collaborating with Ukip, a political party that is set on their downfall and destruction.
This became apparent on Monday, when Douglas Carswell, the victor of Clacton, returned to the Commons. To my amazement and even stupefaction, he was introduced by two MPs from the very party which he had just deserted.
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