Probe into Ukip member’s ‘greedy for good life’ remark

Ukip is investigating comments about the migrant crisis posted on the Twitter feed of one of its election candidates, which suggested that three-year-old Aylan Kurdi died because “his parents were greedy for the good life in Europe”.

The remark, on the account of former Wimbledon election candidate Peter Bucklitsch, sparked outrage on the social media site and was condemned as “grotesque and awful” by Ukip MP Douglas Carswell.

Meanwhile, Ukip accused a BBC presenter of “prejudice” against the party, after he branded Mr Carswell’s own use of language “abhorrent” in a prickly interview about the refugee issue on the News Channel.