Walking side by side down a suburban Rochester street, campaign leaflets in hand and blue rosettes on their chests, Jacob Rees-Mogg and his young son Peter make for an idyllic picture of English politics.

Like his father, and his father before him, seven-year-old Peter is already a staunch Conservative, with his views on Ukip fully formed. "I think they're absolutely nuts," he says, to the delight of the elder Rees-Mogg.

Unfortunately the youth of Rochester are not all as sympathetic. Later on that day, the colourful Tory MP is cornered on Rochester’s high street by a sceptical 14-year-old Ukip activist who wants to discuss David Cameron’s EU renegotiation. "He should just have the referendum and get out," the boy tells Mr Rees-Mogg.

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