Nigel Farage blames the Tories and Labour for ‘lies and incitement’ after being accused of fanning flames over summer riots.

Taking calls from LBC listeners, Mr Farage refused to apologise, insisting to Nick Ferrari: “I asked a very simple question. Can we please be told the truth. That was all.”

When challenged over his comments on whether the Southport attacker was known to security services, Mr Farage said: “I asked a question - was he known to the security services?

“They still haven’t told us the truth. What I thought vindicated me wholly was Jonathan Hall KC who is the tsar for terrorism and rioting backed up by Lord Carlisle both said that the government and police need to level with the public.

"If they’d levelled with the public I don’t think those riots would have been anything like the scale they were.”

Mr Farage was also asked about his friend Donald Trump's claim that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating cats and dogs (05:29). He defended the comments, insisting: "Whenever he says something like this, that sounds absolutely crackers; in the end, there always proves to be some truth in it."

And finally (07:49) he gave his views on the sentencing of disgraced broadcaster Huw Edwards.

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