Kemi Badenoch: “Absolutely not … Conservatives believe in free speech, where people are welcome to criticise us as much as they like.”

Mr Farage wants the people of Clacton to settle his problems for him.

These are people who left us when we were at our lowest, many of them the people who caused the problems in the first place and then ran away and pretended they had nothing to do with it. Why should we have them back?

He has spent the week boasting about how he wants to cut the costs of his bloated civil service in Scotland, but at the same time he’s committed to wasting more taxpayers’ money and time on opening more of his fake embassies.

Cut welfare spending and invest that money in our defence