The party denies it is xenophobic, yet some voters with more illiberal views find UKIP appealing.

Few of our many upstart generals have more illiberal sentiments, and more vulgar and insolent manners, than General Lasnes.

It would be hard to find a civilized people who are more timid, more cowed in spirit, more illiberal, than we.

"I must confess," was Carey's reply, "I never heard anything more illiberal.