BRINGING back the death penalty, ending child benefit for mothers with more than two children and coaching immigrants to live in the UK were just some of the policies of Salisbury’s Ukip candidate at the last election.

In 2010 Paul Martin stood for The Middle England Party, which stood solely in the Isle of Wight constituency.

He claimed the “morally balanced silent majority of Middle England” could do nothing to stop the move towards “civil unrest and anarchy”.

Ukip wants to introduce an Australian-style immigration points system, but in 2010 Mr Martin favoured “nil immigration”.

He said the government should “coach” immigrants living in Britain to “understand and live by our rules and customs”.

And he also backed the reintroduction of the death penalty, which was abolished as a punishment for murder in 1965.

The manifesto said: “It is not right to ask the taxpayer to keep the worst offenders in relative comfort when the families of those destroyed by their actions have no way of gaining closure as a result of the perpetrators’ behaviour.”

He also called for an end to child benefit for parents with more than two children, saying it was “absurd that the tax payer funds the immorality and irresponsibility of the few”.

Mr Martin finished eighth with 616 votes, less than one per cent.

He lived for 20 years in the Salisbury area, volunteering as a special constable in Wilton and refereeing in the Salisbury & District League.

He said: “[Now] I stand for Ukip, I represent the views of Ukip full stop. I am not standing for those [policies].

“For years I have been a natural Conservative voter. Then I started to get disillusioned three or four years ago when David Cameron became a dictator.

“At that point I thought I must stand up for what I believe in, as an individual, and I learnt a huge number of lessons during that process.”