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UKIP would scrap the prosecution of hate crime and repeal anti-discrimination legislation if they gained power, the party will announce today.

New leader Gerard Batten will also promise Muslim-only prisons in UKIP's 'interim manifesto' at today's 25th annual conference in Birmingham.

But many more traditional party members will be uncomfortable with the extreme, populist direction in which Batten is taking the party.

He drew fire last month for backing a plan to allow EDL founder Tommy Robinson to join the party, and for welcoming right-wing bloggers and their followers with open arms.

Ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage - who is due at the conference's gala dinner - last night condemned the direction of the party warning it faces "total and utter marginalisation" if it flirts with the far right and he was "really upset" Robinson could join.

Mr Farage - who is considering running for London mayor - said of Robinson's possible membership: "I'm completely opposed to it.

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"I wrote very explicitly into the rules of the party when I first became leader: we did not want anybody in the party that had taints with organisations we deemed to be on the far right of British politics.

"I couldn't have been clearer. It really upsets me to see the fact this debate is even taking place."

The new manifesto calls for the abolition of the Crown Prosecution Service’s guidelines on ‘hate crime’, suggesting the “motives of the criminal” should not be taken into account.

It also pledges to repeal the Equalities Act, which makes it illegal to discriminate against people on the grounds of religion, sex, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or age.

They would also shut down the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the government body which monitors and enforces non-discrimination laws.

"UKIP will scrap the Crown Prosecution Service’s guidelines on ‘hate crime’, which are purely subjective," the manifesto boasts.

"Victims of crime should all be treated equally, irrespective of the motives of the criminal," the manifesto boasts.

The UK has laws stretching back 20 years that allow the courts to inflict higher sentences on criminals who have picked out their victims on the basis of race, religion, disability or sexuality.

Party chiefs did not confirm tonight whether the policy would include scrapping the laws themselves or changing sentencing guidelines, or simply changing advice to prosecutors.

It comes three years after Farage provoked anger by calling for many workplace discrimination laws to be scrapped.

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Asked which discrimination laws he would get rid of, he said at the time: “Much of it. I think the employer should be much freer to make decisions on who he or she employs."

Mr Batten said the interim manifesto’s purpose was “to make UKIP a populist party in the real meaning of the word - one whose policies are popular with voters.”

The party would also scrap all foreign aid, "LGBT-inclusive" primary school classes, road tolls, High Speed 2, the BBC licence fee, inheritance tax and the Climate Change Act, and sell off Channel 4.

Foreigners would be banned from using the benefits system or the NHS or buying property without five years' residency - forcing Brits to get an 'NHS health card' to prove their eligibility.

And migration would be 'restricted' from Islamic countries, purportedly to curb extremism.

Border officers would be forced to work under a 'Migration Control Department' and be directly answerable to a UKIP minister.

UKIP won just 557,000 votes in last year's general election, 50,000 more than the Green Party, and does not have a single MP.