Farage: I was wrong about Miliband

Ukip leader Nigel Farage has said the one thing he got wrong in the election campaign was thinking Ed Miliband would move towards offering a referendum on EU membership.

Mr Farage said he believed Labour would try to box the issue off, but said the fact the party hadn’t done so meant that any deal between Ukip and Labour has become unimaginable.

“From a Ukip voter’s perspective it’s completely impossible to do a deal with a man that won’t give a referendum,” Mr Farage said.

On a campaign visit in Ramsgate, Kent, Mr Farage also criticised David Cameron for changing his stance over the years.

He said: “So he [Cameron] is committed to a referendum, although I don’t like the timeframe and I’m not very convinced about the terms of the referendum.

“So there is a possibility that if we could get a referendum we could have a conversation with them.”