A political party dedicated to ending Britain's involvement in the European Union says it expects to win a seat on the Greater London Assembly this year.
The United Kingdom Independence Party launched a massive nationwide billboard campaign in London this morning, and is targeting the London Assembly for electoral success.
"We think we have a realistic prospect of a GLA member or two," a spokesman for the party said.
The UKIP will put up more than 1000 of the massive billboards across the country, highlighting the party's opposition to the EU, over the next week.
Many of these will go on display in London.
The party had a low profile during the 2000 local elections in London, but the UKIP spokesman said their London mayoral candidate Frank Mahoney was leading a more visible group of candidates for this year's elections.
"We have a full national manifesto, with local manifesto issues as well," the spokesman said.
Frank Maloney, who is running a campaign of considerable hostility toward incumbent Ken Livingstone, said he would remove the congestion charge and focus on law and order issues, including increasing the size of the Met by 10,000 to 40,000.
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