By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor and Tim Shipman PUBLISHED: 10:38 EST, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 06:48 EST, 24 April 2013 His views on Europe and immigration are well known, but yesterday Nigel Farage lent his typically vocal support to a more controversial issue. The UK Independence Party leader launched a defence of strip joints, calling them a ‘pretty good’ thing and even boasted that he had visited one club in Strasbourg with a former French presidential candidate. He insisted he was ‘absolutely delighted’ that one UKIP candidate runs a lapdancing club in Northampton, calling him a  ‘free-market entrepreneur’.
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UKIP leader claims a young Margaret Thatcher would join his party
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Dismisses Cameron as a 'social democrat' who he could never do deal with
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Suggests a pact would be possible if Michael Gove were leader
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