Leave.EU camp stir tensions with Douglas Carswell assassination jibe

Although the first rule of spin doctoring is to never become the story, Leave.EU’s Andy Wigmore appears to be taking the Alastair Campbell approach when it comes to managing the campaign’s comms.

After the Mail on Sunday revealed that Nigel Farage may have been the victim of an assassination attempt — after a wheel on his Volvo fell off his car in suspicious circumstances while he was driving on a motorway — Wigmore took to Twitter to mischievously suggest the culprit could be Douglas Carswell given his strained relationship with the Ukip leader:

Douglas Carswell???? He's pretty cross at the moment #justsaying https://t.co/icykZ0Vvh0

— Honourable Andy Wigmore JPs (@andywigmore) January 3, 2016

Alas given the strained relationship that exists between the Leave.EU camp and Carswell — after Wigmore’s boss Arron Banks described him as ‘borderline autistic with mental illness wrapped in’ — the Ukip MP did not take the comment lightly. He described Wigmore’s tweet as ‘distasteful’ and ‘extraordinary’:

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