I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

America has borders. You have quite strict borders, actually. Even getting a work permit in New York actually is quite a difficult thing to do. I've got to prove I've got an address. I've got to prove I have private health care. And when my work permit runs out, if I haven't left, there'll be a knock at the door, they'll put me in handcuffs and take me to JFK Airport. That's how you guys do it.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

We vote to leave, we get rid of this Prime Minister - dishonest Dave [Cameron] - and we get a better Prime Minister.

Ukip policies are common-sense policies.