article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage has dismissed criticism of the lack of diversity in Ukip's manifesto by claiming there was a 'half black' party spokesman featured prominently - and 'one fully black person'.
article_snippet.sent: Ukip leader made the remarks after being asked at Ukip leader manifesto launch last week to justify the scarcity of black and Asian faces in manifesto.
article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage has dismissed criticism of the lack of diversity in Ukip's manifesto by claiming there was a 'half black' party spokesman featured prominently - and 'one fully black person' The question provoked noisy barracking, including from a group of black and Asian candidates attending his manifesto launch.
article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage told Magic Radio: 'Well firstly there was one fully black person.'
article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage added: 'There was another one of our leading spokesman who is half black and that didn't get a mention.
article_snippet.sent: The Ukip leader - trying on hats at a campaign stop in Canterbury, Kent, today - made the remarks after being asked at his manifesto launch last week to justify the scarcity of black and Asian faces in the Ukip manifesto .
article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage said the party's immigration spokesman Steven Woolfe - who has dual heritage - was 'half black' The Ukip manifesto launch was overshadowed by a row over the number of black and Asian people included, after a journalist pointed out that the only image showed someone from an ethnic minority - an African woman in the overseas aid section .
highlights_snippet.sent: Ukip leader asked to justify lack of black and Asian faces in manifesto .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But Ukip leader said there was one 'half black' person and one 'fully black person'
  Ukip's immigration spokesman Steven Woolfe has mixed heritage .
  