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Nigel Farage fails to make a mark on US trip

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Channel: The Telegraph · 2015 · News & Politics

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Ukip leader Nigel Farage struggles to be recognised as he attends to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the US in an effort to build solidarity with fellow conservatives 

Ukip party leader Nigel Farage attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington last night to meet conservative activists and potential Republican presidential candidates. 

Campaigning on a platform of quitting the European Union and slashing immigration, Farage's Ukip has been likened to the Tea Party movement that shook up the Republican Party. 

However many of those at the annual conservative conference had little idea of who he was and by the time he took the stage at CPAC most of the delegates had already departed. 

Ukip which won European elections in Britain last year and now poses a countrywide problem for Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative party ahead of a British election in May that is expected to be one of the closest in recent history. 

Although Ukip is unlikely to win more than six of Britain's 650 parliamentary seats, polls show it is stealing more votes from the Conservatives than from Labour. 

With Conservative and Labour neck-and-neck in the same polls, the Tories it will split its vote and make it tougher for it to win outright. 

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