Nigel Farage to be sent up in one-off BBC mockumentary

Comedian Kevin Bishop will bring an alternate version of the UKIP politician to life

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UKIP leader Nigel Farage is to be the focus of a one-off BBC2 comedy.

Titled Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back, the half-hour mockumentary will track the controversial figure - played by comedian Kevin Bishop - in the months following the EU referendum.

On his casting, Bishop said: "I'm delighted to be playing a character as colourful as Farage. He's a gift to parody and I'm looking forward to bringing previously unseen aspects of his life to the screen."

The comedy's title harks back to the speech Farage made in July in which he resigned as UKIP leader.

He said: "During the referendum campaign, I said I want my country back. What I'm saying today is I want my life back, and it begins right now."

This alternate timeline ponders "what sort of life has he gone back to, and how does a man forever in the spotlight fill his days now he has nothing to do?".

Instead of sporting moustaches on Newsnight or attending Donald Trump rallies in the US, the episode will show him "at home, eating bangers and mash, watching Pointless."

It's to be written by Alan Connor and Shaun Pue who were the duo behind A Young Doctor's Notebook, the Sky Arts production that starred Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe.