Ukip spare the beekeeper

Ukip has vowed to ban the burka if it ever comes to power and in its manifesto – which it launched today – the party calls on people to show ‘your face in a public place’. But there’s a problem: in the same document in which the party unveiled its policy, there was one person who could well fall foul of the new plans – a beekeeper.

The image of the hardworking beekeeper appears just pages away from Ukip’s announcement that ‘face coverings…are barriers to integration’. Thankfully, Ukip’s deputy leader Peter Whittle has said the question of whether apiarists would be affected by the ban was ‘ridiculous’. Mr S hopes the party won’t be stung come June 8 over the confusion…