Alex Phillips revealed she feared Sir Tony Blair's former spin physician Alastair Campbell was going to assault her in a latest conflict on BBC Newsnight.

The former Brexit Party MEP accused Mr Campbell of being a "bully" for his behaviour in direction of her, which she claimed he was well-known for in media circles.

But Mr Campbell has advised Express.co.uk: "She was talking nonsense then and is talking nonsense now."

He added: "Her account is actually disproven by the footage on the night."

Ms Phillips advised Mike Graham on TalkTV: "We had been caught subsequent to one another as a result of [BBC Newsnight host] Victoria [Derbyshire] and he [Campbell] begins huffing and puffing.

"He leans proper throughout me and he's like 3 times my dimension, blocks me together with his arm and also you see that simply earlier than the digicam pans again spherical.

"He's there pulling out his microphone, his hand's flailing in my face."

She added: "I'm actually shaking, sort of thinking 'oh my God is he actually going to assault me?'"

Ms Phillips added: "What's so remarkable is that the people who have sent me private messages saying: 'I have experienced him and he is really not nice, he is a bully'.

"Even, and I do not wish to identify names, people who find themselves nonetheless interviewing him right this moment.

"If everybody knows that he is aggressive, he is a bully, that he doesn't play fair in interviews, he tells porky pies, he's physically intimidating, why keep giving him a platform?

"I'm fairly certain if he was a right-winger, he would not be."

The row emerged after final week's BBC Newsnight the place Mr Campbell questioned why Ms Phillips, who's a Reform UK occasion advisor, had been allowed on the programme.

He accused her of speaking "such nonsense" and regularly talked over her.

Mr Campbell tweeted to say he had apologised to Ms Derbyshire over the way the show had gone.

He also made it clear that he was not apologetic to Ms Phillips, tweeting: "Accepted it was not precisely disagreeing agreeably, however I feel now and again people who find themselves given a free trip to speak absolute nonsense and face no duty for his or her function in harm to the nation are challenged.”

Mr Campbell has been approached by Express.co.uk for remark.