Video shows a barefoot man standing on a ledge holding a Palestine flag several metres up the tower, in an apparent act of protest.

Palestine Action described it as a ‘direct response to the US administration’s stated intent to ethnically cleanse Gaza’.

The parts, including top slides and barrels for pistols, were found ‘expertly hidden’ inside a 1976 Datsun Sunny shipped from Pakistan to the UK.

Mr Lowe denied the claims and said the complaint to police ‘obviously went in just after I asked reasonable questions of Reform’s leadership’.

The boy told police he was ‘horrified’ to hear Bhim Kohli, 80, had died in hospital the day after he was allegedly attacked in a park.