Ukip's new guard: web agitators threaten to swamp struggling party

Group of activists prominent on YouTube have pledged to take Gerard Batten’s party overOnly a few years ago, Ukip was fixed in the public mind as the party of tweed jackets, warm beer, and monomaniacal devotion to a single political cause.In 2018, the battle to define Brexit is still raging, but Ukip’s position is far less clear. It has been through a string of increasingly eccentric leaders. The clarity of its goal has been diluted, and it has begun to find common cause with the jai