Nigel Farage says Ukip have “slipped back a bit”

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United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage meets workers at Bird and Yates car repairs during campaigning in the Midlands today on April 7, 2015 in Cannock, United Kingdom. As the election campaign moves into it's second week media reports have stated that former UKIP MEP Amjad Bashir has asked Nigel Farage to publicly withdraw a range of allegations he made in January.

Nigel Farage admits Ukip has “slipped back a bit” in the polls but believes the party’s key campaign issues like EU membership are now very much “back in play” with voters.

Mr Farage said: “We are exactly where we were last August, having won the European elections – we were on 14-and-a-bit per cent.

“We won the European elections, we found that level and we did have a rally in the Autumn through the remarkable events of first Clacton and then perhaps more remarkably the Rochester by-election.

“We’ve slipped back a bit since then, there are 30 days to go and I think the issues Ukip is campaigning on are back in play.”

The Ukip leader spoke after tasting a cupcake during a visit to Ukip candidate Bill Etheridge’s office in Dudley.