The mother of a primary school pupil who told a Labour MP he supported Ukip because he wanted to get 'all the foreigners out the country' has admitted she's embarrassed by the exchange.

Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, was visiting the primary school in Derby where he was filmed asking the year six pupil who he would vote for in next month's election if he could.

Video of the conversation shows the Labour MP was stunned by the statement, which a Ukip spokesman claimed shows the schoolboy had been 'drinking in propaganda' from the party's rivals.

The mother of the 10-year-old has said she has now sat down her son and explained 'it isn't about being foreign'. But she added: 'I do personally support an Australian points system.'

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Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, had asked the youngster who he would vote for in next month's election if he could take part

The mother, who wished to remain anonymous, told MailOnline she was 'embarrassed' after the video went viral online. She added: 'I can see the funny side, but it is a but embarrassing.

'I don't really think my son understands the impact of what he said. I think he's just heard people talking.

'His dad agrees with some of UKIP's policies, but I haven't decided who I am going to vote for yet.

'When my son told me what he'd said, I sat him down and explained it isn't about being foreign. But I do personally support an Australian points system - if you have something to offer the country when you are coming in that's fair enough.'

Mr Hunt, who was visiting a primary school in Derbyshire as part of the election campaign, asked the year six child: 'Do you know who you would vote for?'

When the child said Ukip, Mr Hunt replied, 'Very good' and asked why. The youngster replied: 'To get all the foreigners out the country.'

A Labour spokesman admitted to MailOnline that Mr Hunt had been taken aback by the schoolboy's remarks.

He said: 'We at a school in Derbyshire, in a classroom. I'll admit we were a little bit surprised by the remark.'

A Labour shadow minister was left gobsmacked after a primary school pupil told him he supported Ukip – because he wanted to get 'all the foreigners out the country'

Mr Hunt appeared taken aback by the child's support for Ukip to get all the foreigners out the country

The exchange at Howitt Primary School at Heanor, Derbyshire, was recorded by BBC East Midlands and broadcast last night.

Today the headteacher said that the unnamed boy's comments were 'not representative of the school'.

The school has more than 400 pupils aged three to 11 and spent the last two years in special measures until January this year.

Its latest Ofsted report says: 'Most pupils come from White British backgrounds. There are very few pupils from other heritage groups or who speak English as an additional language'.

In the town of Heanor, which is 10 miles north of Derby, 98.2 per cent of the population is white.

Nigel Farage yesterday insisted Ukip was not anti-immigration

In 2006 a Channel 5 documentary dubbed the town the 'skinhead capital of Britain' when the BNP came second in a council by-election and a government advisor said later that it was one of a few 'unhealthily all white' towns in the UK.

The remarks come just 24 hours after Ukip claimed it was not an anti-immigrant party.

A Ukip spokesman today claimed the boy had been brainwashed by the media.

He said: 'Sadly I suspect the child has been drinking in all the propaganda. This is the information that people are continually being told, but it's not true.

'I thought it was rather sad that he thinks that is what Ukip is for. But it is not a surprise because that is how we are portrayed in the media.'

The party's manifesto chief Suzanne Evans cast doubt on the party's promise to ban unskilled workers for five years before telling supporters that Ukip was not anti-immigration.

In remarks which risk angering supporters opposed to foreigners arriving in the UK, Mrs Evans said: 'Ukip is not anti-immigration. Immigrants are not the problem. It's our current immigration system that is the problem.

'We will not pull up the drawbridge, we will simply start to control who walks over it.'

However the manifesto includes a pledge to limit net migration to 50,000 and introduce a total ban on unskilled migration for five years.

Yesterday it emerged Ukip has abandoned hopes of winning dozens of seats at the General Election and is now targeting just ten.

The party reduced the number of constituencies where it is concentrating resources as it loses ground in the polls.

A party strategist said 'something extraordinary' would now need to happen for it to win in places outside its target list.