Douglas Alexander MP, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, responding to the latest revelations about the Conservatives and UKIP, said:

“David Cameron has already changed his position three times on Europe in the face of internal pressure from his backbenchers and external pressure from UKIP. Now we know that Nigel Farage is demanding further new concessions in return for helping the Conservatives cling on to power.

“Nigel Farage wants a Tory government. UKIP is ready to prop up a Tory government and support their plan to take spending levels back to the 1930’s when we didn’t have a health service. The question is whether Cameron will cave in and take even more risks with our membership of Europe and Britain’s economy. Sadly his past conduct suggests David Cameron will continue to try and appease the unappeasable - whatever the cost to British business.”