WATCH: “We need a fresh face” @douglascarswell tells @therealNihal #UKIP needs a new leader, in BBC Essex exclusive. pic.twitter.com/eDWdavsZSi

— BBC Essex (@BBCEssex) December 18, 2015

Douglas scorns “Let me put it another way I don’t want to wake up the morning after the European Referendum and hear it was the postal votes.” He says that if UKIP becomes an “optimistic, sunshine, smiley, socially liberal, unapologetically free market party – we will break out from the 13%, we will break out from being the also-rans in Oldham to being the winner…”

Nigel says he’s relieved that Douglas is now saying in public what he has been saying in private and he has the support “91.4% of the UKIP membership”…