Nigel Farage: Don’t make the election into an American shouting match

Nigel Farage has warned that the election should not become “an American, negative, shouting match”.

Speaking on a visit to Broadstairs in Kent, the Ukip leader said: “The attack on Ed Miliband was very, very personal, calling him a backstabber

“I just fear that we have an election campaign that is turning into an American, negative, shouting match between two parties, and I don’t think the public like it. “I certainly don’t.”

During a visit to Norwich, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett said: “A very important issue has been raised in the debate about Trident today but the way in which it was raised is deeply damaging.

“This kind of personalised attack is the kind of Punch and Judy politics that is really damaging our political fabric.”