Express & Star readers pose 20 questions for UKIP's Nigel Farage

Creating a wide-ranging interview covering topics from cuts to bedroom tax, Gaza, fracking and what happens to the Eurosceptic if there is a referendum on Britain's place in the European Union.

1. Chris Dorman asked:

Would you go into a pact with Labour if the Tories don't get a majority and fall out with the Liberals?

"If we can achieve the right objectives we'll do what we have to do. It would be a pact, not a coalition agreement. It's a very big distinction. The Ulster Unionists kept John Major in power in the 1990s by supporting him on key bits of legislation."

2. Ade Caulwell asked:

I would like to ask what are UKIP's plans for the three emergency services? We have seen constant cutbacks to police, fire and ambulance.

"We saw massive increases in spending in all those services since 1997 without an improvement in front line delivery or care. We will uphold and affirm the principles of great public services but we have to deliver a better bang for buck for people of this country. We have to make cutbacks in unnecessary expense and bureaucracy."

3. Kirsty asked:

Are you concerned that more people around here will probably have heard of White Dee in Big Brother than the candidates in the Police and Crime Commissioner election?

"Well what about Kellie Maloney (the former boxing Frank Maloney who is undergoing gender reassignment) who's a UKIP member? I couldn't believe that, Frank! We're living in a world where popular culture dominates everything, celebrity is a huge dominant force in our lives today. People in politics look dull. No-one thinks it makes a difference which government we get. If we were here in 1979 or 1983, politics in Wolverhampton would have been absolutely vibrant and live because whether you had Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister or Michael Foot fundamentally affected and changed the kind of country we live in."

4. Margaret Hamilton asked:

Your deputy (Paul Nuttall) had been implying that you want to privatise the NHS. What do you say to that?

"No he hasn't. What he said was maybe we should re-think the way we do the National Health Service and move to an insurance system like they have across the rest of Europe. That's an argument Paul wants to advance. I don't think it's a priority at the moment. We need to go on as we are but get better value for money."

5. 'Dave W' asked:

Will you abolish the bedroom tax?

"The bedroom tax has been mistaken. Iain Duncan Smith's desire to cut the welfare bill is right. But the bedroom tax has created division and it only works if you have a police state with the local council going around your bedroom. I do think we have to cut the welfare bill."

6. Andrew Brisbane asked:

What happens to UKIP following Mr Cameron's promised in/out referendum?