“There is no question that this recent tape, ugly as it is, has really hurt him badly, of course,” Mr Farage told Panorama.

“I just saw this whole thing as sort of, an extreme form of alpha-male boasting – it is the kind of boasting that some men do – it doesn’t mean that they actually do it.”

Mr Farage added that despite the controversy many of Mr Trump’s supporters would stand by him.

“You know, there are lots of things in this campaign that I couldn’t support in any way at all and nor do I. But I spoke to people who were Trump voters … and do you know what – they couldn’t care less,” Mr Farage added, according to The Guardian.