Kilroy-Silk to launch Veritas
Former TV chat show host Robert Kilroy-Silk is expected to launch his new eurosceptic party, Veritas, Latin for truth, on Wednesday.
Mr Kilroy-Silk quit the UK Independence Party earlier this month after failing to oust the leadership of the anti-European party.
The former Labour MP for the Merseyside constituency of Knowsley North is expected to unveil the breakaway party in central London.
The title of the party will be: Veritas – the straight-talking party.
In a BBC3 TV programme, Kilroy: The Man Behind The Tan, filmed after UKIP’s European elections success last June, in which the party won 12 seats in the European Parliament, Mr Kilroy-Silk described some UKIP supporters as “bloody right-wing fascist nutters”.
A spokesman for the party yesterday said the “right-wing nutter” was in fact Mr Kilroy-Silk.
Meanwhile, Veritas has won the support of one of the two UKIP members sitting on the London Assembly.
Damian Hockney, a member of UKIP’s National Executive Committee, said Mr Kilroy-Silk would “deliver better” than the current UKIP leadership.
Mr Hockney said Mr Kilroy-Silk had named him deputy leader of the party.
UKIP yesterday said Mr Hockney had a moral duty to give up his seat on the GLA.
It is also rumoured around eight other members of UKIP will move across to Veritas.
Separately, UKIP was forced to suspend a prospective parliamentary candidate for issuing proposals to kill the criminally insane, press reports said Sunday.
John Houston was due to stand in the East Kilbride seat in Lanarkshire at the next election.
