THIS was the moment election tensions were stretched to bursting point yesterday in the unlikely setting of a Sunday morning farmers market as Labour MP Tulip Siddiq went head to head with a Conservative supporter over her party’s policies.

The unidentified visitor to a stall at which Ms Siddiq had invited the public to ask their MP any questions was clutching a stack of Conservative election leaflets and wearing a blue Tory sticker. She said she had not seen Ms Siddiq do anything over the last two years apart from “propose Jeremy Corbyn”.

She said she wanted to know why Ms Siddiq would rather Mr Corbyn was Prime Minister over Theresa May, to which the Hampstead and Kilburn MP responded that her leader had voted to give a safe home to refugee children. Later, her challenger said “this is all about the immigrants and nothing else, it’s disgraceful,” while Ms Siddiq shouted back: “Immigrants contribute a lot to the country I’m afraid.”

The exchange came as activists from Labour, Conservatives and the Lib Dems all canvassed shoppers as they went into the market at Salusbury Primary School.