Ukip MP in corridor showdown with donor

Attendance at Ukip’s conference is down on past year, after the party failed to break through at the general election with 4m votes but just one MP.

Mr Farage made it clear he was joining Mr Banks’ umbrella organisation at the party conference.

This was despite UKIP winning almost four million votes at May’s general election.

Nigel Farage has claimed that Britain has a 50/50 chance of leaving the European Union and warned Ukip that he will devote all his time to campaigning in the in/out referendum.

It is expected they will create a new group called “Leave.EU”.

Following the dispute, Carswell told the Guardian: “It’s really important that we build a united campaign and a good place to start with that is to unite Ukip”.

Most members of the Confederation of British Industry, the country’s biggest business lobby group, also want reforms but believe the advantages of European Union membership outweigh the disadvantages, its director-general John Cridland said in a statement on Wednesday.

“We need to respect that, but that doesn’t mean we should accept anyone who is prepared to cross the Mediterranean”. In a matter of weeks, Leave.eu has claimed the support of a wide range of Euroskeptic groups including the Margaret Thatcher-inspired think-tank The Bruges Group and the cross-party Campaign for an Independent Britain. “I think all that can do is lead to resentment”, he said. “They’re more concerned with who’s top dog or if they’re on our side of the aisle than fighting with the enemy”.

UKIP’s MP also clashed with the party’s multi-millionaire donor Arron Banks in a war of words.

Mr Carswell said he had kept Ukip informed about his involvement in the Business For Britain campaign group.

“I walked into the lobby and he attacked me”, Banks told POLITICO.

Mr Carswell, a graduate of the University of East Anglia, last night said he was not going to dignify Mr Banks’ “ill-judged” mental health comments with a response and he would be “unfailingly optimistic” during his turn on the conference stage.

In a set-to witnessed by journalists, Banks replied by saying he would already have sacked Carswell if he worked for one of his companies.

Mr Farage accused Mr Carswell of having “residual loyalty” to the Conservative Party, which the MP left previous year to join Ukip, triggering and winning a by-election in Clacton and subsequently retaining his seat in May.

“The very same week I had people contact me to say some travellers had turned up and they didn’t like the fact they were travellers in caravans. It is all of the people who believe in Euroscepticism will join forces”, says Philip Broughton.

A NIGEL Farage super-fan who got a huge tattoo of his face on her arm has had it signed by the man himself.

“We’re not affiliated we want to remain independent, we cooperate”, said Matthews. Our view is that is absolutely hopeless and allows the prime minister to set his agenda.