Why did people in Clacton vote for UKIP in by-election?

Name: Why did people in Clacton vote for UKIP in by-election?
Uploaded: 2014-10-10T09:44:59.000Z
Duration: 3 min 6 s
Description: UKIP have made political history by getting their first MP, so we asked people in Clacton, Essex, why they voted for them.

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Tory defector Douglas Carswell has become UKIP's first MP after the Clacton by-election.

We wanted to know why people voted for the party.

So we got voters to write their reasons down on bits of paper.

Video journalist: Declan Harvey

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10 October 2014