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Nigel Farage speech at UKIP Spring Conference
Nigel Farage is seeking to galvanise UKIP support ahead of May's European elections in a speech at the party's spring conference in Torquay.
The anti-European Union party is hoping to win the most seats in the contest, building on its strong poll ratings and success in last year's local elections.
In his speech, Mr Farage will say UKIP is the "biggest threat to the political establishment" in modern times.
He is also expected to criticise government immigration policies.
UKIP calls for the UK to take back control of its borders by leaving the EU.
Mr Farage will say immigration has "now become the number one issue in British politics", adding: "Eighty per cent of the British people did not want borders to come down with Romania and Bulgaria, but they did.
'Female takeover'"We have lost control and we want to take it back. In fact we've sunk so low as a nation, that we now cannot even deport foreign criminals without the say-so of a foreign court."
David Cameron's efforts to reduce net migration levels to below 100,000 suffered a major setback on Thursday when figures showed levels had rise by 58,000 to 212,000 in the year to September 2013.
End Quote Nigel Farage UKIP leaderWe represent a broadly based body of public opinion in this country that recognises the extent to which our political class have betrayed us."
The increase has been driven by a big growth in the number of European Union citizens coming to Britain.
The conference after recent electoral success, with UKIP winning nearly 150 council seats last May and finishing second - ahead of the Conservatives - in the Eastleigh and Sale and Wythenshawe parliamentary by-elections.
Opinion polls suggest there has been a sustained increase in UKIP's national support since the end of 2012, with it regularly getting double digit figures.
During his speech, Mr Farage will say the party "now poses the biggest threat to the political establishment that has been seen in modern times".
He will add: "We represent a broadly based body of public opinion in this country that recognises the extent to which our political class have betrayed us."
'Changed'The party says it will be contesting more than 2,500 council seats at this year's local elections.
Mr Farage says UKIP "has changed" since 2010, adding: "The most significant change is the rise of women in the party. There are women candidates at number one and number two on the [European elections] lists.
"The point here that distinguishes us is that we have not used positive discrimination, we have not used all-female shortlists, our women have achieve these positions on the European elections lists through merit, which is the example of the kind of society we want to live in."
New sloganMr Farage will also say the European election campaign has been made more "exciting" by Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg's challenge of a head-to-head debate with him on the UK's place in the EU.
The party's deputy leader Paul Nuttall said that, if it got its campaign tactics right, it could come top in the European elections - in which 73 MEPs will be elected from across the UK.
One recent poll suggested UKIP was currently in third place behind both Labour and the Conservatives.
The Guardian has, meanwhile, reported comments Mr Farage made earlier this month in which he suggested eurosceptic MEPs could "have fun" in the European Parliament but "could not change a thing within Europe".
Other parties claim that UKIP is ineffective in Brussels and suggest their MEPs do not attend a lot of votes. Five of UKIP's MEPs elected in 2009 have either defected to other parties or had the whip withdrawn.
The party unveiled a new slogan 'Love Britain, Vote UKIP' on Friday. After it emerged that a similar slogan was once used by the far-right BNP, the party said it was "reclaiming" the phrase.
UKIP activists are debating a range of other issues on Friday, including the protection of women and the status of Gibraltar, amid recent tensions between the UK and Spain.
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