Leave.EU emailed the personal mobile phone numbers of UKIP MP Douglas Carswell and leading Vote Leave officials to its entire mailing list on Monday afternoon, urging supporters to get in touch and demand that Nigel Farage is included in a televised EU referendum debate.



UKIP-endorsed Leave.EU, founded by businessman Arron Banks, narrowly lost out on the bid to become the official anti-EU campaign. Instead, the honour went to Vote Leave, an organisation backed by leading Conservative figures such as Boris Johnson.

Despite this Leave.EU has continued to operate, spending large chunks of its time attacking Vote Leave and attempting to shift the debate on to concerns about immigration.

For its part, Vote Leave has refused to work with Farage, whom it believes he is off-putting for moderate swing voters, in the runup to the 23 June vote and has gone out of its way to complain when the UKIP leader is given television coverage.