I AM appalled that both the British Conservatives and Labour in the European Parliament have voted for the European Commission to interfere in British laws on funding for political parties.
The European Commission should not interfere in any aspect of funding for British political parties.
UKIP does not support interference by the European Commission in any aspect of funding for British political parties. We support the laws which are already in place in Britain which prohibit foreign funding of political parties.
We do not want to establish a precedent for the European Commission to interfere in any way with the laws the British parliament makes on funding.
The Commission must keep its nose out of British politics.
What needs to be questioned instead is the vast funding it makes to organisations in Britain such as the BBC, which between 2007 and 2013 received €30.2m - approximately £22m - from the Commission, and funding given by the Commission to pro-EU groups such as the CBI.
Paul Nuttall, UKIP deputy leader and North West MEP.
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