Sir John Hall on why he's left the Tories to back Farage:

“The Reform party are the only ones I feel who are going to speak about saving my English culture.”

Sir John, who grew up in a Northumberland mining family and made his fortune developing Europe’s largest shopping centre, said he was not against immigration: “But I am against people who are coming, not really to be part of our society, but to bring over their own ways and try and install them, the way they want to live.”

He added: “We have sleepwalked into this battle for hearts and minds and souls of everybody here.

“Nigel Farage is the only one who speaks for what I feel should be my English way of life.”