article_snippet.sent: Half of voters agree with Ukip that immigrants should not immediately receive free HIV treatment, a poll suggests.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband insisted afterwards that Ed Miliband had the ‘overwhelming support’ of the British public for saying that foreign nationals with HIV – whom Ed Miliband said accounted for 60 per cent of the 7,000 cases a year
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband added: ‘I know there are some horrible things happening in many parts of the world, but what we need to do is put the National Health Service there for British people and families who in many cases have paid into the system for decades.’ A YouGov poll of 1,906 adults found that 50 per cent would support ‘people coming to live in the UK being banned from receiving treatment on the NHS for a period of five years’. 
article_snippet.sent: Another 34 per cent opposed such a ban.
article_snippet.sent: A second question saw voters asked which statement best reflected voters view.
article_snippet.sent: In this, 52 per cent thought Mr Farage was ‘right to raise this issue - immigrants with serious conditions like HIV are costing the health service a large amount of money’.
article_snippet.sent: This compared with 37 per cent who picked: ‘Mr Farage was just scaremongering - compared to the total cost of the NHS
article_snippet.sent: This is a drop in the ocean’, and 11 per cent did not know.
article_snippet.sent: Interestingly, the respondents did not appear to particularly favour Ukip, saying on average that Mr Farage was only the fourth best-performing leader last Thursday, with Nicola Sturgeon in the lead, followed by David Cameron and Ed Miliband.
article_snippet.sent: A Ukip spokesman said: ‘This poll finding shows yet again the disconnect that exists between the Westminster bubble and much of the population. '
article_snippet.sent: A private ComRes poll paid for by a Ukip donor put the Conservatives on course to retain a Parliamentary seat by a small margin.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ukip leader insisted Ukip leader had 'overwhelming support' of public for comment .
  