09-01-2017 21:39 via theguardian.com

Ukip's EU funding at risk after M5S quits Nigel Farage's Brussels group

Italy’s Five Star Movement votes to ditch Eurosceptics in European parliament, but fails to forge new alliance with liberal groupMembers of Italy’s populist Five Star Movement (M5S) have voted overwhelmingly to sever ties with Nigel Farage and his MEPs in the European parliament, raising the prospect of a Ukip losing some of its EU funding.
Almost 80% of M5S’s 40,000 members voted to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the liberal bloc led by the form
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