NIGEL FARAGE’S ramshackle stewardship of the right-wing UK Independence Party was in doubt yet again last night as senior party figures turned on each other in spectacular fashion.

With the party still reeling from its shambolic election performance and the resignation — and subsequent reappointment — of Mr Farage as leader, simmering tensions have erupted into open verbal warfare.

Mr Farage was widely derided for quitting as leader after failing to win the South Thanet seat in the general election, only to be reinstated three days later after the party’s national executive committee rejected his resignation.