The Prime Minister takes a post-election break to make a permanent record of his new euro-sceptic credentials from the entrenched UKIP leader, while his pet poodle BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson drools on.

The harsh truth is that UKIP are simply think tank of the hard right of the Tory party that cut free to form their own protest party and there function now is to drag the political dialogue to the far right and so re-align the 'centre' to the firm right.