Nigel Farage has defended a controversial new Ukip poster campaign that claims 26 million unemployed Europeans are "after" British jobs. The party's leader is beginning his tour of the country on Tuesday ahead of May's European elections.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage has been forced to defend employing his wife, an immigrant from Germany, who is paid by the British taxpayer. Mr Farage was put on the spot about employing his wife as a secretary by political journalist Nick Robinson.
Asked if she was taking someone else's job, he said: "No, I don't think so, because I don't think anybody else would want to be in my house at midnight, going through e-mails, getting me briefed for the next day. If you look at Westminster, one in four MPs employs a close family relative."
Mr Farage also said his wife had some times worked for him without being paid and he didn't know anyone else who would take a job that involved being available at 1am and 2am.
Nigel Farage has continued to defend a controversial £1.5m advertising campaign which has been branded racist by opponents.
Opponents have labelled the eurosceptic party's new billboard campaign 'racist', a charge Nigel Farage claims is a 'classic trick'.