Godfrey Bloom, Ukip anti-hero

Debate the relative merits of the two speeches from Nigel Farage and Paul Nuttall all you like, but the headline from today’s Ukip conference won’t give voters any impression that the party has grown up at all. Godfrey Bloom (who I’ve had my own run-in with before) decided to turn up to a fringe on women in politics and start talking about ‘sluts’. He admitted as much later (audio clip below).

There is an air of inevitability about all of this. The party had organised a fringe on women in politics, and one on its campaign against female genital mutilation for a reason: to show that it is not a misogynist party. Unfortunately, the Godfrey Bloom Self-Aggrandisement Party has rather different policies.