A former Ukip candidate has said ‘Jewish interest groups’ have taken over the party.

Footage of Jack Sen, who was suspended by the party just before the election, shows him launching an antisemitic attack after he spoke to far-right group The London Forum.

In the video posted on YouTube Mr Sen has said he identifies as a “national socialist’, and also praised Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists.

In the speech, last week, he said Ukip was a “great organisation” when he first joined, but said thinks “something stinks.

“I don’t know if it’s been hijacked, or I was naive from the beginning and it was already in the pockets of Jewish special interest groups.

“But I’m afraid that at this point it has been taken over.”

Mr Sen was suspended by Ukip for comments made on Twitter just before the election, but it was too late to have his name taken off the ballot papers in West Lancashire.