Ukip politicians racist ‘clowns’, claims minister

British cabinet minister Ken Clarke has ramped up Tory attacks on Ukip, branding the party’s politicians “clowns” and some of their supporters racist.

Mr Clarke said the party had no positive policies and was merely “against” foreigners and immigrants.

He also insisted it was perfectly acceptable for candidates in this week’s local elections to be picked up on dubious comments they previously made on Twitter and Facebook.