Nigel Farage is a snake-oil salesman. He’s been shilling the same useless product in different disguises for decades and he’s still getting away with it. The latest manifestation is his newly launched Brexit Party, which recent polls show has grabbed the attention of a significant minority of the voting public.

But behind the fancy marketing and the fawning media platform, it’s the same nasty stuff that won’t solve a single ailment and instead will only make you sicker.

I’ve sat opposite Farage in the European parliament and I can tell you he has nothing to offer. The people who voted in him and his Ukip colleagues in 2014 were crying out for real change. But he has shown time and again that he has no