In other news, a Brexit campaign he backs put a BBC editor's mobile number online and told people to call him.

The MP says the sun, not the moon, primarily causes ocean tides.

On 23 June, it will be seven years since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. Two years before the Brexit referendum, Clacton-on-Sea saw its MP defect to Brexit-supporting UKIP. How do people in the resort feel about it all now?