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A Brexit Party candidate has spoken of the abuse he says he receives on a day-to-day basis in Plymouth.

Peter Agambar is the prospective parliamentary candidate for Plymouth Moor View and says that "low level abuse" such as name calling and expletives is now "expected".

The 57-year-old, who will stand in the next general election for the Brexit Party, has revealed that even children are encouraged to go up to him and use inappropriate language to mock his party.

He has spoken out about the abuse days after it was reported that children's author Michael Morpurgo said he was "spat at" for wearing a pro-EU badge at a usually mild-mannered Devon festival.

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Mr Agambar was recently left shocked after he claims he received a "tirade of verbal abuse", from what he believes was a representative of the University of Plymouth, who was wearing a blue university top and official badge.

On Saturday, the father-of-three was setting up a stall near to Drake Circus at the time of the incident, ready to hand out a free Brexit Party paper to new students, when a group walked past led by two representatives.

Mr Agambar said: "You expect it from certain people, if you've got someone walking towards you with a badge. What you don't expect is the representatives of the university.

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"The students you may get a bit of abuse from but the two colleagues that were directing those students, the young lady, she just turned to the crowd and said they're just 'Ws'.

"I'm not going to say the word, I'm an ex-matlot but even I still get embarrassed by that word.

"It's what you don't expect from someone who was representing a university."

Writing on Twitter about the incident, Mr Agambar said that he responded politely to the abuse with "many thanks for your time, have a good morning".

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Mr Agambar was in the Royal Navy for 10 years and left in 1990.

He then enrolled at Plymouth University as a BSc Hons Software Engineering student and currently holds a contract with the University of Exeter.

"I don't consider myself as a politician, I see myself as a former naval medic and a software engineer," he said.

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Mr Agambar said that the university representative, who was understood to be a student working for the university as an ambassador, also referred to him as a "far right extremist".

He said: "I'm a former Labour activist so to be called a far right extremist, I find it both hilarious and offensive.

"It's this low level of abuse that you get constantly. We expect it because we're the Brexit Party."

He added: "I've had ten year olds coming up to me and say b******* and their parents go off laughing.

"That isn't the child's fault, that's the parents' fault."

A University of Plymouth spokesperson said: “No such complaint has been made to the University, but if it is we will of course investigate and take appropriate action through established student conduct procedures.”