Mr Farage appeared passionate in his tirade which he delivered to ITV Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan yesterday. He said: “I’ve suffered this every day. I mean literally every day, year after year.
“We even reached the position where my family was attacked – the car was smashed up and vandalised, written off.
“And the police didn’t pursue a single prosecution.
“Now, because someone in Westminster has been abused, we’re told the police are investigating whether there’s been a crime.
“So, let’s get a sense of perspective on this.
“There’s nothing new about this – there is horrible behaviour taking place by both sides of an argument but we mustn’t overreact to this.
“MPs, public figures, should be free to go out and express their opinion without the threat of violence.
“But if we try now to put in place laws or if the police start prosecuting people for throwing terms of abuse, that reaction I think would be over the top.
“I remember once going to Edinburgh and being attacked by a mob of eighty people in the street – language and abuse and intimidation far worse than we saw yesterday.
“And I was told by Alex Salmond, the first minister of Scotland, that I basically deserved it because I’d come to Scotland where I wasn’t popular.
“So there’s a real double standard that those of us that have taken on the establishment have to endure the abuse, those within the establishment get a taste of it and suddenly they want the law changed.”
On Monday afternoon Ms Soubry, a prominent second referendum campaigner, was heckled on Westminster’s College Green by a group of far-right protestors who called the Tory MP a ‘nazi’ and a ‘liar’.
