UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said he is “mortified” by the establishment media’s constant attacks on Donald Trump’s director of strategy Steve Bannon, describing them as “laughable”. Speaking to Raheem Kassam on Breitbart News Daily, Mr Farage said that if you challenge the establishment they lash out against you. “They use mockery, they use abuse, but ultimately what they use above all else is the tactic of demonization,” he said. This demonization consists of using pejorative terms against someone and then trying to make them stick as fact, he added. Mr Farage said was “absolutely mortified” at the way the mainstream media has treated Steve Bannon, with various outlets repeating smears against him as fact without even double checking their accuracy. “There needs to be a serious fight back on behalf of people who know Bannon,” he said. “I’ve been working around Breitbart and indeed with Breitbart for several years, I’ve spent plenty of time with Steve Bannon. The idea that he is somehow anti-Semitic is almost laughable. “I can’t think of a media organisation that has more clearly stood up for Israel and Jewish rights and indeed pointed out that in Brussels and Paris and many parts of Europe