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Douglas Carswell
Ed Stourton profiles Douglas Carswell, the first elected UKIP MP.
Douglas Carswell has become UKIP's first elected MP in Westminster. A free-thinking Eurosceptic Conservative, Carswell was never shy to criticise "our supine, spineless Parliament". Nonetheless his surprise defection in the summer shocked his friends and supporters. Ed Stourton asks what made him leave now and whether there's more to Douglas Carswell than jam-making and politics.
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Sun 12 Oct 201417:40
BBC Radio 4
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