UKIP want school girls from “at risk groups” to face an invasive medical check for signs of genital mutilation at least once a year – and every time they return from a trip abroad.

The policy forms part of the “integration agenda” launched by UKIP leader Paul Nuttall today. The document states the party’s ambition to:

“Implement school-based medical checks on girls from groups at high risk of suffering FGM. These should take place annually and whenever they return from trips overseas.”

This is the full @UKIP "integration agenda" announced today pic.twitter.com/2jlPSKoLqM — Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) April 24, 2017

The compulsory medical checks were announced alongside a burka ban and moratorium on Islamic faith schools.

Party officials railing against face coverings were forced to clarify bee keepers and nuns would not be affected by their plan.

But Nuttall wasn’t so keen to show his face after the event…he barricaded himself inside a room to avoid waiting journalists:

First exclusive picture INSIDE the Paul Nuttall's hideout. pic.twitter.com/JZdWINknEH — Darren McCaffrey (@DMcCaffreySKY) April 24, 2017

And he refused to answer whether he would stand on the manifesto he just set out as he made a break for a waiting taxi: