UKIP found itself at the centre of new storm yesterday when pictures of a “distasteful” leaflet using WWI graves to canvass more votes surfaced.

The exposure of a Ukip European election leaflet campaigning against “foreign invasion” and showing a war cemetery in France brought a strong reaction on social media.

“The millions who died between 1914 and 1918 did so to defend rival empires in a war fuelled by exactly the type of cynical chauvinism exploited by Ukip,” said No2EU’s lead candidate in Scotland John Foster.