This is one of a series of articles in which representatives of the main parties make their pitch for the Catholic vote.

The encyclical Rerum Novarum, issued by Pope Leo XIII, sets out the rights and duties of every Catholic towards the conditions of the working classes. The document can be more or less summed up in a simple yet potent quotation from it: “there underlies a dictate of natural justice … that wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner”.

I believe that Ukip is now the only party that is willing and able to fulfil these obligations. Our manifesto commits us to lowering the tax burden on lower earners and the self-employed. We’re committed to increasing the standard of living for workers, and we’re the only party with a realistic and radical approach to the housing crisis, using prefab modular homes and brownfield sites.