In a seemingly unlikely move, a Liberal Democrat councillor, Diane Horn, has defected to the right and pledged her allegiance to the UK Independence Party. Horn claimed she had become disillusioned with her party after eight-and-a-half years as their representative. Horne is a member of Shepshed Town council and will proceed to stand for re-election as a UKIP candidate in the next election. Horne said she had been struggling with the decision for a good few months: “Nick Clegg’s broken tuition fees promise was the main thing” she said in an interview with 'The Leicester Mercury': “I was unhappy but the party supported him.
“I’m not against Europe” she continued, “but I am for the British people having control of the country (…) I am not against all immigration but I am against illegal immigration and I think that a person coming here should already have a job to and should be paying taxes.” Horn has said that talking her thoughts over with other UKIP supporters has hugely informed the move.
