Mr Farage rejects claims from Labour that its candidate Lisa Forbes won because she focused on local issues, saying: "Brexit is the defining issue of our age.

He reiterates that he is not planning a policy document soon saying: "The word manifesto is a swear-word to me.

Mr Farage also pours scorn on a deal with Boris Johnson if he becomes leader pointing out that he backed her Brexit deal at its third vote in the Commons.

S ajid Javid has told how he would punch bullies first if they racially abused him as as child, enjoys the occasional cigarette as well as a meal at the Nando's chain.

He also pledged to slash stamp duty on the most expensive homes to free up the market and help young families move if he becomes Prime Minister.

He said: "When I was 10 or 11 I punched someone. There were more than once if someone was being racist to me - it would be another child - I would just punch them and punch them first.

And kick them elsewhere. It's naughty. It's not what you expect someone who wants to be a Cabinet minister let alone Prime Minister to do in their childhood, but it was a natural reaction.

Listen to the podcast at here. N igel Farage is on the Today programme. He says that the Conservative party now could have to do.

We have pushed on further than Ukip ever could. He adds: "If we don't leave with a a clean Brexit on October 31 the Brexit party will power on.

Farage blames his loss on his party's lack of data about where the key voters are - something which Labour had been working on for months. He says: "By-elections are won or lost on data - parties build up data, knowing who their voters or their potential voters are over a long period of time.

Mr Farage suggests his Brexit Party might not publish a policy manifesto but instead a "policy platform". He says: "If you look at the manifestos that have been delivered by the two so-called main parties in the last series of elections none of the pledges have ever been delivered.

Mr Farage suggests Labour would produce a "policy platform" or a "contract with the people" offering ideas for political reform and regional economic policies.

Asked if he would do an electoral pact with the Conservatives he says: "They may have to come and do a deal with us - who is to say.

All I know is I don't believe a word they say, I don't trust them. He adds: "I am not offering anyone a deal - we are an eight week old party, we are pushing on.

What will begin to happen is that Conservatives who want to leave will start to vote tactically. A big vote for delivering brexit in Peterborough but no pro early brexit MP.

Not a good result. We need more votes in parliament for just leaving as most Conservative and Brexit voters want to do. The chairman of the Peterborough Conservative Association Wayne Fitzgerald said it was now essential the party committed to taking Britain out of the EU, even if it meant no deal.

Her parting gift is another dreadful election result, one that unfortunately reflects her three year tenure as Prime Minister. She lost 33 Conservative MPs their seats in by calling a snap election and blowing a 20 point poll lead in one of the worst Conservative Party campaigns in its history.

She then promised to clear up the mess she created and Peterborough was at least one final opportunity to make a small measure of amends.

Unfortunately she could not do so for its dedicated former MP, Stewart Jackson, who decided he would not contest the seat again, and as for Paul Bristow, the dedicated local candidate, she was nowhere to be seen in Peterborough.

W hat can we learn from this by-election and will it have any impact on who is likely to replace Theresa May? Read the full story.

S hadow chancellor John McDonnell said the Peterborough vote had "punctured the Brexit Party's balloon" after Mr Farage departed before the result was announced.

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Ms Forbes caused controversy during the campaign when she liked a social media post which said Theresa May had a "Zionist slave masters agenda".

Labour said she had liked a video expressing solidarity with the victims of March's terror attacks on mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch "without reading the accompanying text, which Facebook users know is an easy thing to do".

Meanwhile, Labour Against Antisemitism asked for her to be suspended from the party, calling her election a "dark day" for Labour.

By-election facts. Fifteen candidates stood. Turnout was His Brexit Party came within just under votes of pulling off a sensational by-election victory in Peterborough.

But in politics - as in everything else - there are no prizes for coming second and it's Labour and Jeremy Corbyn who are celebrating victory.

After a turbulent few weeks for the Labour leader, Lisa Forbes' win has earned Mr Corbyn some respite in his battle with the Remainers in his party demanding a second referendum.

But not for long. Mr Corbyn's critics in his party will claim that this, after all, was a Labour held-seat and anything other than a victory for his party should have been unthinkable.

But these are not normal times in British politics and a Brexit Party victory looked on the cards throughout much of the by-election campaign.

Christian People's Alliance - Tom Rogers. Conservatives - Paul Bristow. English Democrats - Stephen Goldspink.

Green Party - Joseph Wells.

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