article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage, appearing on a special Question Time-style programme filmed in Birmingham today, even claimed his party could enjoy an SNP-style surge in support in the wake of a vote to remain in EU.
article_snippet.sent: The Scots – the Scots rejected the Scots independence referendum and yet UKIP have gone to remarkable heights since then.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage's claim that UKIP could surge to similar levels of support to UKIP is likely to spark accusations of hubris.
article_snippet.sent: In the wake of last year's independence referendum in Scotland, UKIP has seen UKIP support surge to 54 per cent – putting UKIP on course, according to some analysts, to win all 59 seats north of the border.
article_snippet.sent: UKIP meanwhile trail badly behind both the Tories and Labour –
article_snippet.sent: currently languishing on between 10-15 per cent in the polls.
article_snippet.sent: Unlike UKIP, UKIP is expected to win no more than five seats on May 7 – with some pollsters predicting only the popular Douglas Carswell clinging onto Douglas Carswell seat in Clacton, Essex.
article_snippet.sent: But Mr Farage insisted UKIP was on course to do well at the election and claimed UKIP's stance on border controls was backed by the vast majority of the country.