He [Batten] doesn't have the support of the party to do this. Even a poll of party members shows that his issues are very low down on our list of priorities, so I'm going to fight, try and save it [Ukip], but if it continues in this direction, electorally it is finished.

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Gerard Batten, then leader of UKIP, had defended hiring Robinson {real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) as an advisor on policies relating to rape gangs and prison reform.

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