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Conservative MP Michael Fabricant said the Prime Minister's comments on a British-American tax and trade agenda could be the beginnings of a "most profound change":

This could be the beginnings of the most profound change that could affect the future of the UK for the next 50+ yrs. http://t.co/Uof9jkj0oB

From @Mike_Fabricant on Twitter: ( 6:55 am, Mon 13 May 2013)

If the ideal of free trade is reached between the major nations on earth, it will beg the question: What is the EU for, what is its benefit?

From @Mike_Fabricant on Twitter: ( 6:58 am, Mon 13 May 2013)

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The Tory MP Michael Fabricant has made light of fears surrounding fracking in the UK following today's announcement to allow the controversial practice go ahead:

Fracking to resume off Lancashire coast. Will Blackpool Tower fall into a chasm? Will 1000 kiss-me-quick hat sellers disappear?I think not.

From @Mike_Fabricant on Twitter: ( 9:21 am, Thu 13 Dec 2012)

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Eight Conservative MPs have held preliminary talks about defecting to UKIP, the party's treasurer has claimed.

Stuart Wheeler has told The Daily Telegraph: “I have had lunch secretly if you like, in a completely confidential way, with eight different Tory MPs.”

Mr Wheeler, who was expelled from the Conservatives in 2009 after donating £100,000 to UKIP, has said he has passed their details onto the party's leader Nigel Farage.

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A new poll suggests that 61% of Conservative supporters want Britain to leave the European Union provided it could maintain its close trading links.

The survey, carried by ComRes for The Independent, appears to show that 54% of voters feel the same way.

It comes on the day the Tory vice chairman Michael Fabricant suggested his party make an election pact with the UK Independence Party, which wants to quit the EU.

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The Conservatives' ongoing difficulties over Europe have taken a new twist with calls for them to form a pact with UKIP.

Tory vice chairman Michael Fabricant said the two parties should consider their similarities but David Cameron and UKIP leader Nigel Farage said no deal could be done.

Watch this report from our Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship.

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It looks as if the former whip Michael Fabricant's call for a pact with UKIP hasn't gone down at all well with the Prime Minister.

Asked exactly what his job as Tory Party vice-chairman entailed, a Downing Street source said he "organised by-elections."

Moments later he clarified that saying Mr Fabricant's role was to "help out" at by-elections. A return to a job in Government seems unlikely.

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London mayor Boris Johnson has rejected the call for an election pact between Conservatives and the UK Independence Party (UKIP), declaring that voters have "had enough" of pacts and coalitions.

He added: "What they [voters] want is to see parties standing up individually for what they believe in."

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Nigel Farage says the UK Independence Party (UKIP) is "at war" with the Conservative Party and criticised David Cameron for failing to backtrack on his claim in 2006 that UKIP members were mostly "closet racists".

He also hit out at the Prime Minister for failing to deliver a referendum on the European Union.

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Paul Nuttall, UKIP's deputy leader, says any election pact with the Conservatives would be "very difficult" while David Cameron heads up the party.

"You really can't believe a word he says on the European Union and he's also a guy who called us closet racists," he said.

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