PEOPLE are looking to Bolton for answers about where political party UKIP will go after last month’s historic EU referendum result.

UKIP has campaigned since the early 1990s to achieve a vote for the UK to leave the European Union, something it finally achieved in June.

Following that results and the subsequent resignation of leader Nigel Farage, questions have been asked about the future direction of the party.

And it appears that more and more people are looking to Bolton — where UKIP has managed to secure five council seats in just two years — for the answer.

Group chairman and Little Lever and Darcy Lever Cllr Paul Richardson will this week speak at the party’s North West conference in Liverpool about the success his Bolton group has achieved at council level — and how this can be a way forward for the party.

His ward council colleague and group leader, Cllr Sean Hornby, was also speaking about the future of UKIP on this weekend’s Sunday Politics North West programme.

The BBC show came to Bolton to pose that same question about what lies next for the party and visited Cllr Hornby and colleagues at his Bradley Fold pub, The Queens Hotel.

Speaking to reporter Stuart Pollitt, Cllr Hornby said: “What UKIP has to do now is prove that we are not a party with one policy and one issue, which is something we have been doing for some time now.

“There is a need for us to engage at the base and work up.”

Deputy leader and North West MEP Paul Nuttall has already ruled himself out of replacing Mr Farage and on the programme, Cllr Hornby admitted there are some big shoes to fill.

He added: “Nigel Farage is a one-off.

“But there is a point to UKIP and this party can go from strength to strength.”

Mr Farage was a big hit in Bolton when he visited on his battle-bus before the referendum but based on the BBC film, people in Bolton’s knowledge of UKIP doesn’t go much further than the former leader.

Numerous shoppers in Newport Street and Victoria Square are asked if they are aware of any other party members who could take on the role — with no one able to muster a single name.