Nigel Farage: It's wrong to link motives behind Jo Cox death to Brexit campaign

Nigel Farage has accused the Prime Minister of linking the motives of Jo Cox's alleged killer to the Leave campaign and said "frankly that is wrong."

The Ukip leader said Remain were trying to "conflate" the motivations of the man accused of killing the Labour MP with those of "millions of voters who want to leave the European Union."

He said David Cameron and the Remain campaign were "using" the MP's death to improve their chances of winning Thursday's EU referendum.

He spoke as MPs gathered in Westminster for a recall of Parliament to pay their respects to the mother-of-two, who was shot and stabbed in the street in her constituency of Birstall, West Yorkshire on Thursday.

On Sunday, Mr Cameron shared the Batley & Spen MP's last article, a pro-EU essay in which she argued that Britain could deal with the issue of immigration more effectively by remaining in the EU.

The Ukip leader - who acknowledged on Sunday that Mrs Cox's death had taken momentum out of the Leave campaign - told LBC radio:

He insisted that he had said nothing "inciteful" during the campaign and defended the controversial poster he released on Thursday morning that showed a column of migrants walking through the European countryside under the slogan "Breaking Point".

"If the timing of her murder and me putting out that poster has upset people, I'm sorry," he said. "That certainly wasn't the intention. The intention was to use that poster for a day to point out that the EU is a failed project in every sense."