Farage calls anti-Ukip protesters who forced him out of pub 'scum'

Protesters outside the George and Dragon in Downe, Kent. Photograph: Mike Kear

Anti-Ukip protesters in fancy dress forced Nigel Farage to flee his local pub where he was dining with his family on Sunday afternoon.

The Ukip leader called the demonstrators “scum”, claiming they had caused his children distress. The group, however, said they were holding a “cabaret of diversity” in support of those Ukip was seeking to marginalise.

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