Claims by Tony Blair that an EU referendum would cause economic 'chaos' have been branded "rubbish" by an East Lancashire UKIP Euro-MP.

Party deputy leader Paul Nuttall was responding to the former Labour Prime MInister's intervention in the election campaign.

He said: "Blair is one of the EU's biggest fans and has always had his own agenda with the British people at the bottom.

"He betrayed the people of this country by opening wide the gates to unlimited immigration.