Analysis of UKIP's 2013 Local Election Breakthrough in Yorkshire and the Humber

2013 was significant because UKIP, led by Nigel Farage, went from a near-irrelevance in local elections to making significant breakthroughs in many councils across England - although North Yorkshire was not one of them.

For some years, when Labour analysts thought about UKIP at all, they regarded the Eurosceptic party as being a useful spoiler vote for the Conservatives.

UKIP mainly broke through in medium-sized towns, especially coastal ones whose fishing or sea-resort industries had suffered under globalisation.