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Urgent: UKIP leader fails to gain South Thanet seat from Conservatives: BBC

Xinhua, May 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Nigel Farage, leader of the Eurosceptic right-wing UK Independence Party, failed to win the seat in South Thanet from the Conservative Party during the general election, the BBC reported Friday.

South Thanet is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the British parliament.

Farage said earlier that he would quit if he failed to win. Endi