The Reform UK leader said the party stands for “family, community, country” but all of those are “being damaged”.

He said “sectarian voting” has taken hold after tensions flared up at the general election over Gaza.

There are “communities being destroyed by division,” Mr Farage told the Express. “Parts of our towns and cities not even recognisable as being England.”

Mr Farage said many Muslims were worried about the growing rise in British-born young people who have extremist views.

He said: “There is a deep concern about the number of young Muslims who think jihad is cool. And they were born here. So what’s going wrong?

“There is a problem and one that is very widely recognised by many, many Muslims.”

He added: “Our political class have built up social problems the likes of which we have never seen.

“Not since Catholics and Protestants were killing each other have we seen divisions on this scale.”

Mr Farage said putting an end to identity politics, which focuses on race, religion or sexuality, would help end division.

He added: “We have to make sure the law applies equally to everybody.

“We have to fight hard against the culture of identity politics and the race thing is at the heart of all of this.

“The dividing of us up into groups according to what colour we are, what sexual preference we are – catastrophic at every level.

“This is where we are much more radical than the other political parties. They don’t even want to talk about this stuff.”