Douglas Carswell
Ed Stourton profiles Douglas Carswell, the first elected UKIP MP.
Profile · BBC Radio 4
October 11, 201413m 54s
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Show Notes
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.