Farage’s group now formed

Nigel Farage has succeeded – by a hair’s breadth – in establishing his Eurosceptic group within the European Parliament. He announced, at 17:00 on 18 June, that UKIP’s 24 MEPs will sit with 17 Italian MEPs from Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement (M5S), two Lithuanians from the Order and Justice Party (who were once suspected of joining the extreme right with Marine Le Pen), one Czech MEP (Petr Mach), two Swedish Democrats, one Latvian (Iveta Grigule), and one ex-Front National…