Politics

Among them is former transport secretary Chris Grayling, who took a £100,000-a-year role advising a ports company.

Lord Freud said the benefits cap was not an austerity measure, but a way of winning over voters.

“I would like to think they would not commit murder to achieve their aims. You never know, though," Farage said of the 'hard-Left trolls'.

"He lied to us. They all did, to all of us. This Government has borrowed our faith and played us for fools," James Mitchinson said.

It comes as Boris Johnson finally admitted he could have handled the Paterson affair better.

“Of course, I think things could certainly have been handled better, let me put it that way, by me," the prime minister has said.

One resident who is a lifelong Tory voter said he is considering voting Labour because the Tories  “seem to fall down on promises”.

It comes as Liz Truss, UK’s foreign secretary, said this weekend that Putin has to intervene in the “shameful manufactured migrant crisis” unfolding at the Belarusian border. 

Prime minister Boris Johnson's handling of the UK's own affairs may have also weakened Britain's leadership by example.