UKIP support surges to new high: Poll

Support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has reached a record high level in the wake of a recent expenses scandal hitting the Conservative party, a new poll shows.

The latest ComRes survey for the Sunday Mirror and Independent on Sunday placed support for the UKIP on 20 percent, up four points since last month and at an all-time high from the polling firm.

UKIP, which wants Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) and plans to reduce the inflow of immigrants to the country, managed to achieve its best results in local elections in England and Wales in May 2013.

Asked about their voting intention in a general election, 35 percent of those polled said they would vote for Labour, compared with 29 and 7 percent for the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, respectively.

Questioned about the individual party leaders in the UK who they have a favourable view towards, voters put both Tory leader David Cameron and UKIP’s Nigel Farage on 27 percent, Labour’s Ed Miliband on 20 percent, and Liberal Democrat’s Nick Clegg on 12 percent.

Furthermore, some 62 percent of those surveyed said British prime minister showed lack of leadership over his handling of Culture Secretary Maria Miller Maria Miller’s expenses scandal.

Miller quit her post on April 9 following the scandal over her expenses between 2005 and 2009.

In the four-year period, Miller claimed more than £90,000 in taxpayer-funded expenses on her house in Wimbledon, south London, which she shared with her parents.

The Commons Committee on Standards recently cleared the Basingstoke MP of misusing the expenses system, but ordered her to repay £5,800 to cover over-claiming of mortgage expenses and apologize for failing to co-operate fully with an inquiry into her actions.

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