“The far right have been allowed to grasp the agenda – Farage puts up that appalling poster that has a picture of desperate people fleeing from war”.
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But Mr Farage rejected the charge of stoking up hatred, telling interviewer Robert Peston: “I think I have been a politician who has been a victim of it, to be honest with you”. “(But) I think what we could have in the end would be better”.
“When you challenge the establishment in this country, they come after you, they call you all sorts of things”.
She said the rest of the Leave campaign should condemn the poster and should withdraw their own posters about the possibility of Turkey joining the EU.
Chancellor George Osborne said the poster, which has already been the subject of complaints to the police over alleged racism, was “disgusting and vile” with “echoes” of literature which appeared in the 1930s – a reference to Nazi Germany.
“Or will we, instead, choose the tolerant, liberal Britain; a country that doesn’t blame its problems on other groups of people; one that doesn’t pine for the past, but looks to the future with hope, optimism and confidence?”
Senior pro-Leave Conservatives Chris Grayling and Michael Gove have criticised the poster, with Grayling saying it was “just plain wrong” and Gove revealing he “shuddered” when he saw it. We should stay in order to try and improve but does that change my views on points I’ve raised on public ownership of railways and things like that?
The Archbishop of Canterbury added: “The rhetoric in the media is one that suggests that the United Kingdom is “full”, and that those arriving on our shores are a drain on our economy”.
He subsequently told Sky News that the post “reflects the truth of what’s going on”.
UKIP’s next posters would be “all about this country not the wider point it was making there about the European Union failing us all”, he added.
He said he was right to raise issues like the New Year sex attacks on women in the German city of Cologne and the arrests of four people “plotting to blow up Dusseldorf, who came in posing as refugees last year”. They have allowed him to just talk endlessly about foreigners and immigration and of course there are concerns about immigration but it is not the only issue at stake in this referendum. Vote out and create a system to stop them arriving in the first place. “But the European Union has made a fundamental error that risks the security of everybody”.
The poster features a vast queue of mainly dark-skinned refugees.
Mr Farage replied: “That’s the point isn’t it”.
“If we remain, I believe Europe has got to change quite dramatically to something much more democratic, much more accountable and share our wealth and improve our living standards and our working conditions all across the whole continent”, he said.
“I find it hard to contemplate it happening here but nothing’s impossible”.
Pressed on how Labour would help workers whose wages were being driven down by migration, he said: “By ensuring that local wage rates are paid, that the minimum wage is respected, that the living wage becomes a reality, £10 an hour seems to me to be the figure that we should be campaigning for, but also to ensure there is lower levels of disparity so people don’t necessarily feel so attracted to go and work elsewhere because they get better wages”.
Mr Hilton said the premier reaffirmed his commitment to target in the 2015 general election even though he “had been told was undeliverable”.
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The SNP leader told BBC Radio Scotland’s “Good Morning Scotland” programme she had examined “all of the arguments and all of the evidence on both sides” of the campaign.
