THERESA May has refused to rule out the possibility of Ukip leader Nigel Farage being made a Lord.

The Prime Minister was pushed on the likelihood of a Baron Farage of Dulwich sitting in the upper chamber by SNP MP and The National columnist George Kerevan during questions in the Commons yesterday. He asked May to “confirm or deny that there have been official conversations at any level about giving Nigel Farage a peerage?”

All May said in return was that “such matters are normally never discussed in public”.

After PMQs her spokeswoman said people shouldn’t read too much into the Prime Minister’s answer.

“We don’t comment on individuals, there’s a process to be followed,” she said, adding: “You will have heard the Prime Minister talk in October about her views on the honours system and making sure that it recognises people who really contribute to society and their communities.”

A source close to Farage dismissed the speculation claiming it was as an “odd question” for PMQs.

Kerevan’s question came just days after Farage hinted he may join the Tories, a party the banker was a member of until 1992, walking away after John Major signed the UK up to the Maastricht Treaty

In an interview with Sky, Farage was asked if he would “like to rejoin the Conservative Party?” He replied: “Let’s see what happens.”

The Ukip chief and May have clashed over the last week after Farage became the first British politician to meet America’s new president-elect Donald Trump.

Farage had been a prominent supporter of Trump, speaking at one of his rallies. The Republican candidate saw parallels between his bid for the White House and the campaign to take the UK out of the EU.

The MEP had offered to help May get to know Trump, an offer firmly rejected by No 10.

“The president-elect talked about enjoying the same close relationship that Reagan and Thatcher did. I don’t remember there being a third person in that relationship,” May’s official spokeswoman said.

Farage said the Prime Minister was not acting in the interests of the UK: “Nobody in this administration in the UK has any connections with the Trump team at all and yet they are prepared on behalf of the country to cut off their noses to spite their faces,” he told LBC.

Ukip’s leader in Scotland, David Coburn, told The National a peerage wasn’t good enough for Farage.

“I think he should be made a Duke. They did it for the Duke of Marlborough who saved Britain. They were going to do it for Winston [Churchill], they were going to make him Duke of London. Nigel should be made a Duke, he saved his country.”

Ukip, which received the third most votes at last year’s election, have just three peers in the House of Lords, all of whom defected to the Brexit party. The Liberal Democrats, who took half as many votes, have 104. The SNP have a longstanding convention of not taking seats in the unelected Lords.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister was also pressed on proposals by the president-elect to implement a ban on Muslims being allowed to enter the US.

Edinburgh MP Tommy Sheppard, asked May what action she would take “if the new president-elect carries through his campaign promise to discriminate against our citizens on the basis of their religion? Will she give a commitment that the special relationship which she believes her Government have with the US presidency will be conducted on the basis of respect for the dignity of all our citizens, irrespective of their race or religion?”

May said that the UK wanted to “ensure the dignity of our citizens.”

But the Prime Minister added that it is “up to the United States what rules it puts in place for entry across its borders”.