Nigel Farage says there has been a concerted attempt by the Establishment to put UKIP out of business Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images Europe
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he Telegraph’s recent exposure of the Establishment targeting Leave campaign donors by hitting them with a 20 per cent inheritance tax bill on their gift raises fundamental questions about the functioning of our democracy.
If, as seems to be the case, pro-EU corporates donated without penalty but anti-EU entrepreneurs like Arron Banks and Stuart Wheeler have been punished merely for supporting the Leave side, it is little wonder that many Remoaners now want a second referendum.
This disgraceful stitch-up calls to mind another story about which I have so far kept quiet but which presents an even greater danger to our democracy.
For more than a decade there has been a concerted attempt by the Establishment to put UKIP out of business.
As a new party, it was difficult enough to promote our message of wanting to return Britain to being a self-governing, independent nation while constantly being...
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