UKIP plans alliance to scupper constitution

THE United Kingdom Independence Party will use the European Parliament’s first full session since its election breakthrough in the European elections last month to forge pan-European alliances with scores of other Eurosceptic MEPs and scupper the new EU constitution.

The UKIP said yesterday that its main aim was to achieve a “no� vote in as many as possible of the ten countries holding referendums on the constitution. “Our main goal is to get as many ‘nos’ as possible to stop the constitution. That is our main political goal for the next two years. I anticipate a lot of co-operation on referendums, � Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader in the European Parliament, said.

Mr Farage said that about 100 of the Parliament’s 732 MEPs opposed the