Nigel Farage travel nightmare
Meanwhile Nigel Farage is having a travel nightmare. The Ukip leader has failed to make his first stop on a scheduled tour of the West Midlands.
He was expected at a farm in Staffordshire, but has not turned up due to travel difficulties, a Ukip spokesman has confirmed.
Speaking ahead of a visit to the West Midlands, Mr Farage had said: “I am really looking forward to coming again to the West Midlands. It is the heartland of England.”
He is due to give a speech at the Copthorne Hotel in Brierley Hill in the Black Country this evening.
In December Mr Farage attracted controversy when he blamed high levels of immigration for missing a meeting with Ukip supporters.
Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday Politics Wales, Mr Farage explained his lateness: “It took me six hours and 15 minutes to get here – it should have taken three-and-a-half to four.
“That is nothing to do with professionalism, what it does have to do with is a population that is going through the roof chiefly because of open-door immigration and the fact that the M4 is not as navigable as it used to be.”