Farage gets a poll boost as Ukippers meet in Margate

He did well at a right-wing conference in Washington DC too, though not as well as Sarah Palin

Columnist Don Brind

To coincide with their spring conference starting today, Ukip have come out with a new poll which suggests Nigel Farage is on course to win South Thanet. The Survation poll gives him an 11 per cent lead over his nearest rival.

It follows a series of disappinting polls - from Ukip's perscpective - that questioned whether Farage had chosen the right constituency to fight in order to win a seat at Westminster: Ashcroft polls have shown Ukip behind in South Thanet, while the Election Forecast website suggested recently that the Tories had a 95 per cent chance of stopping Farage taking the Kent seat.

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is a former BBC lobby correspondent and Labour press officer who is watching the polls for The Week in the run-up to the 2015 election.