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Nigel Farage has revealed the Tories offered him a peerage twice to avoid the Brexit Party running against their election candidates.

Paul Sweeney says Tory MP Ross Thomson groped at him in the House of Commons Strangers’ bar, and tried to put his hands down the front of his trousers.

The Prime Minister said he sees no reason why the UK should extend the Brexit transition period beyond December 2020 - despite calling an election then.

The missed target comes as an opinion poll revealed that most Brits say climate change will influence their general election.

Labour has also gone on the attack on Boris Johnson after the government failed to bring urgent plans to tackle the climate and environment emergency in time to meet the six month deadline set by parliament.

The announcement comes as the Conservative Government has been accused of misusing public money in Government Facebook ads targeting marginal constituencies which were launched on the day Boris Johnson got the election he has repeatedly claimed he did not want to hold.

Facebook has removed the adverts paid for by the public purse targeting key swing constituencies.

'We know Facebook was used as a political weapon by Johnson, Cummings and Gove in the Vote Leave illegal campaign'

The Brexit Party launched its election campaign in London on Friday.