The UK Independence Party has renewed its call for Britain to remain a sovereign nation state.

Speaking to ePolitix.com earlier this week, UKIP MEP Nigel Farage said voters faced a very simple choice.

"There are Labour, Liberal Democrat, Conservative and Green candidates in this election all of whom want to be in the EU, all of whom see the European parliament as valuable, all of whom are telling you that 'we are going to reform it and we are going to change it'," he said.

"If that is what you want as a member of the public please vote with one of those four.

"If however, you believe that we should be an independent country, that we should co-operate, do all the things that European neighbours do, but not be subject to European law, then vote for the UK Independence Party.

"We are not going to Brussels and Strasbourg with any pretence that we are going to reform it and change it, we are not.

"The model is far too advanced and far too rotten as far as we are concerned to be reformed.

"But what we can do is we can use the knowledge, we can the use the information that we get in our role in the European parliament to come back and tell the British people what it is really all about.

"We have been doing that for the last five years and we have made the argument that we should leave the EU now a respectable political argument."