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No fewer than 22 Conservative MPs elected under John Major's leadership in 1992 have subsequently left the party.

And quite neatly they have spread their defections fairly evenly across the political spectrum, as follows:

Five joined Labour: Alan Howarth, Robert Jackson; Peter Temple-Morris; Quentin Davies and Anthony Nelson.

Five joined the Lib Dems: Emma Nicholson, Peter Thurnham (recently deceased), Harold Elletson, Hugh Dykes and John Lee.

Seven joined UKIP: Roger Knapman; Jonathan Aitken; Neil Hamilton; Piers Merchant, Theresa Gorman, Sir Richard Body, and Bob Spink.

One joined the old Referendum Party: George Gardiner, (although he later rejoined the Conservative Party - he's now deceased).

And four have joined no other party at all so far as I know: Sir John Gorst, David Mellor, George Walden and Walter Sweeney.

There may be others, too.

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Membership of the European Union costs Britain £60.1 billion per annum UKIP wants to leave the European Union and spend the money here in Britain.

To put this figure in perspective, just £1 billion would pay for:

222,000 hip replacements
Or 46,893 nurses
Or 38,782 teachers
Or 34, 585 police officers

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