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Conservative MP and arch-Brexiteer Andrew Bridgen has repeated calls for Nigel Farage to be knighted to “pull our country back together”.

Speaking on Good Morning Britain two days before Christmas, the vocal member of the European Research Group also suggested that House of Commons veteran and Remainer Ken Clarke should also receive an honour.

The member for North West Leicestershire said this morning: “Part of the idea of rewarding people on both sides of the argument - Ken Clarke, a leading Remainer, and Nigel Farage, a leading figure in the leave campaign - is to try and pull our country back together in a season of goodwill.”

In the days following Boris Johnson’s landslide victory in the polls on December 12, Mr Bridgen wrote a letter to the Prime Minister making the same request.

Mr Bridgen's letter said: “As you [Mr Johnson] rightly said is your post-election speech, the country now needs to go through a healing process, and I believe we should honour those on both sides of the referendum debate.

“I am therefore writing to recommend that the Government should honour Nigel Farage with a knighthood, to reward the work he has undertaken over many years to advance the case for the UK leaving the European Union.

“Likewise, I believe that my former constituency neighbour, Kenneth Clarke, should also be honoured with either a peerage or a knighthood, to recognise his many years of service for the Party and Country.”

However, Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu a lawyer and political and women’s rights activist, told GMB she thinks giving a knighthood to Mr Farage would be wrong.

She said: “I think to do so would not only be ill-advised, it would be irresponsible, especially in the state that we have today in the United Kingdom, with how divided it is with racism, hatred, bigotry.

“We should not be rewarding an architect of that very thing with Nigel Farage.”