Ukip happy to do deal with Tories if David Cameron goes Ukip leader Nigel Farage says it could be good to talk with the Tories - once David Cameron has gone Nigel Farage says he will be happy to do a deal with the Conservative party - but not while David Cameron is leader. The comments from the leader of the UK Independence party will strengthen the hand of rebel Tory backbenchers. Mr Farage insisted on Sunday that his party, which won 143 council seats in local elections last week, was "not just some little pressure group." But the Ukip leader said he would be willing to see the party do a deal with the Tories. Speaking on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show he said: "If David Cameron was removed and somebody else was put in place who said they wanted to come and talk to us, I wouldn't stand in the way of that." Mr Farage's political capital has soared since the election results, which one coalition official suggested heralded "the birth of four-party politics in the UK." But analysis by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, electoral academics at Plymouth University, indicates that even if this week's results were repeated in a general election, Ukip would not win a single seat. Mr Farage said he would stand to be an MP in 2015, however, and his party hopes that his personal popularity would help him get elected. The Ukip leader said he would choose a constituency to fight nearer the time. His party's surge in popularity has had immediate repercussions on the Tory party. Several backbenchers this weekend urged the government to legislate to hold a referendum in the next parliament on Britain's membership of the EU. David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, has called for a referendum to give the prime minister a mandate to renegotiate powers with Brussels, before a second vote in 2017 on membership. Mr Davis told The Observer newspaper that having a first referendum next year would be "an absolute Ukip killer." He said: "It would massively reinforce the prime minister's negotiating hand and put some steel in his back." Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, suggested that the Tory leadership would try to placate its restive backbenchers by publishing a draft referendum bill before the 2015 election. Mr Hammond said he would "strongly support" such a move. But the defence secretary conceded that much of Ukip's appeal to voters lay in issues other than Europe, such as immigration and globalisation. The Tories hope that some of that attraction will fade after the Queen's Speech next week, which will propose an immigration bill. Theresa May, the home secretary, has said the draft legislation would reduce the grounds on which foreign criminals can appeal against a decision to deport them. Officials have said the bill will also aim to limit the benefits available to new immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania.