Farage's car was not among those recalled, says Volvo

Volvo dismisses idea that manufacturing fault caused wheel to fall off V70 car, which prompted Ukip leader's speculation about an 'assassination plot'

Volvo has quashed suggestions that a known manufacturing fault with Nigel Farage's car may have been behind an incident on a French motorway in which all four of the nuts on one of the wheels came loose and caused him to lose control.

The Ukip leader told the Mail on Sunday that he feared his near brush with death last October may have been a failed assassination attempt, after he was told by French police who inspected the vehicle that "sometimes nuts on one wheel can come a bit loose - but not on all four".