The film received generally positive reviews, with favourable comparisons drawn with a docudrama aired the previous week that had offered a fictitious account of Britain's first UKIP government.

The film follows the fortunes of Liz Langton, a hotel owner with a collection of porcelain clowns who was briefly UKIP's press officer in South Thanet, the constituency that selected Farage to fight the 2015 general election.

These include a remark made by MEP Janice Atkinson during a visit to the area when she described a Thai constituent as "a ting tong from somewhere", and revelations that Martyn Heale, the Chair of Thanet's branch of UKIP, had once belonged to the National Front.

[7] Addressing the issue on the 22 February edition of BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House, Nigel Farage said that the party had been right to expel her: "Clearly she doesn't have any understanding of the deep offence she has caused by her comments, and we took the right decision.

"[5] Soul singer Beverley Knight was subjected to racial abuse by a user on social media site Twitter after she posted tweets expressing her disgust at the comments made by Duncan.