This is extraordinary from Lee Anderson. After insulting the BBC and @EssexPoliceUK his final sentence: “I believe Nigel above the police.” And there, in six words, is the problem. Evidence, institutions, police statements - none of it matters. Nigel said it so it must be true. It’s a personality cult.

🔥 🔥 WATCH 👀 This is dynamite from former Clacton MP Charles Watling. “I said about 14 years ago that Nigel Farage was the most dangerous man in British politics, and he has proved to be so.” Watling then points to the extraordinary irony: Farage spent years campaigning for Brexit, taking Britain out of European asylum arrangements and now uses the Channel crossings crisis as political fuel. Create the problem. Campaign on the consequences.