Ukip campaign chief attacks Farage

Nigel Farage has become a “snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive” man who is turning Ukip into a “personality cult”, the party’s campaign chief has said in a stunning attack on his leader.

Ukip’s economics spokesman Patrick O’Flynn blew open simmering tensions within the party in an interview with The Times newspaper in England, saying Mr Farage was no longer the “cheerful, ebullient, cheeky, daring” politician of recent times.