Nigel Farage has defended lewd comments made by American presidential candidate Donald Trump as "alpha-male boasting".

"It's the kind of thing, if we're being honest, that men do," the interim leader of UKIP said, appearing on Fox News ahead of the second presidential debate tonight with Hillary Clinton.

"They sit around and have a drink and they talk like this. And by the way, quite a lot of women say things amongst themselves that they would not want to see on Fox News or on the front page of newspapers."



On Friday, the Washington Post published a video recorded in 2005 that captured Trump on a hot mic making a series of lewd comments, including one about trying to have sex with a married woman.

“I moved on her and I failed, I’ll admit it,” Trump can be heard saying in the video. “I did try and fuck her. She was married.”

