Nigel Farage: MP’s death has taken momentum out of campaign

The tragic death of Labour MP Jo Cox has taken some of the momentum out of the campaign to get Britain out of the EU, Ukip leader Nigel Farage has suggested.

His comment came as he was accused by chancellor George Osborne of “whipping up division” with a poster showing a column of migrants walking through the European countryside under the slogan ‘Breaking Point’, which the chancellor said was reminiscent of extremist literature produced in the 1930s.

Leading Leave campaigner Michael Gove also distanced himself from the image, saying he “shuddered” when he saw it.