Nigel Farage has refused to deny a suggestion that he is attempting to apply for joint German citizenship.

A Facebook user reported that she had seen the former UKIP leader queuing at the German embassy in London – and speculated that he was attempting to gain dual nationality in the wake of the EU referendum result. So BuzzFeed News telephoned Farage to ask if this was true.

Asked what he was doing at the German embassy, the UKIP MEP, who has devoted his political career to campaigning for Britain to withdraw from the EU, replied, "None of your business."

And when asked specifically whether he was queueing at the embassy in order to apply for German citizenship, Farage, whose wife Kirsten Mehr is German, replied again: "None of your business." Then he hung up.