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Kilroy resigns UKIP whip

13 April 2012

Robert Kilroy-Silk said today he had resigned the UK Independence Party whip.

Mr Kilroy-Silk will remain a member of the party but will now sit as an independent Euro MP.

Speaking from Strasbourg he told PA News: "These people wanted to metaphorically hang me a few days ago. Now they have found they can't and they want me to be their friend. I don't do that and I have resigned the whip."

Ukip welcomed the decision. A party spokesman said: "Robert Kilroy-Silk doesn't do much except generate negative press comment.

"If he has withdrawn from the whip then to a certain extent he ceases to be our problem. But we would remind him that the people of the East Midlands voted for a Ukip MEP and not a maverick independent.

"We welcome the peace that will hopefully return to Ukip and will allow us to get on with the task of fighting the EU rather than fighting Kilroy-Silk."

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