this is one of arron banks, are fed up with ukip. . . ? this is one of my stories... t is! i hadn't spotted that! what a brilliant story! sunday express! had a chat with errant banks, in the wake of the stoke by—election, —— arron banks, paul nuttall, leader of the party, unsuccessful in his attempts to be elected as the party's second mp, he says he will quit and take his minions and not be part of ukip u nless his minions and not be part of ukip unless they let him become chairman of the party so that they can professionalise and modernise the party and move forward with it. he has a bit of a beef with douglas ca rswell, has a bit of a beef with douglas carswell, as we have known for a long time, and this issue that aired on question time about whether or not douglas carswell indeed blocks nigel farage's knighthood, has reared its ugly head again, and arron banks told me that if he becomes chairman, then his first act will be to expel douglas carswell. it's all bitter infighting again. certainly is. sunday telegraph, they have written‘s new terror chief... max hill,

but it was this tweet from ukip donor arron banks that was the final straw. ick to death of hearing about hillsborough. i'm not going to be serving the party. i can still serve the people of this city, which i do every day anyway. but i'm not going to serve ukip if it's got arron banks as a donor, sorry. that is my argument. ukip's liverpool chairman, stuart monkham, has also resigned, saying "this unprofessional approach and crass insensitivity from high—profile people, closely within and without ukip, is upsetting and intolerable." paul nuttall is well aware that hillsborough remains a painful, sensitive issue here on merseyside. questions about his personal experience have dogged his bid for parliament in the stoke central by—election. and the timing of these resignations, just as voters are preparing to go to the polls, could hardly be worse. this was paul nuttall last week. neither he nor arron banks would comment today. the ukip leader says he was at hillsborough but he'd not lost close friends. there was a mistake on my website, which was put up by a pr

two ukip officials have resigned from the party, saying leader paul nuttall and donor arron banks showedbout the hillsborough disaster. last week mr nuttall said he was sorry over false claims that he had lost close friends in the tragedy, and arron banks said he was "sick to death" hearing about hillsborough. liverpool and merseyside branch chairs have called the actions "unprofessional". our assistant political editor norman smith is in westminster. this just keeps thisjust keeps on this just keeps on going, thisjust keeps on going, norman. the timing could scarcely be worse, we arejust the timing could scarcely be worse, we are just days away from the stoke by—election where of course paul nuttall is the candidate. what is striking and i think is the fact that these two chairman of ukip our chairman of his local party, the livermore branch, and the merseyside regional chairman, these are presumably people who know him ready well but nevertheless are so incensed by the controversy over the hillsborough remarks suggesting he had lost close friends, which he now concedes was wrong, altho

so, that's arron banks. what about the other two?owen patterson said, would actually leave the single market. we're not going to leave the single market in terms of having a trading relationship but in terms of being a formal member. if you look, and i was with owen for a lot of the campaign, if you look at the detailed comments made, not picking a few quotes out of context, time and time again we were questioned on this, i remember discussing on the campaign, we all said it is clear you could not leave the eu and by the back door come in, give up control of your immigration policy, not being able to conduct free trade negotiations outside of the eu, and then realistically say we've left the eu. we said we wanted the strongest possible access to the single market but we would not anticipate being formal members. what we now have is the cliff edge scenario, something people said britain should try very desperately to avoid. here we go again. you say, here i go again. explain to me why there is not the grave danger that in two years af

in the press release, they were critical of both paul nuttall and arron banks. m heatherington at least was focusing his criticisms quell er on mr banks. —— squarely. they acknowledged in their press release that it was an incredibly politically damaging time for them to do what they are doing, notjust because paul nuttall is their party leader, but he is the candidate in the stoke by—election as well. leader, but he is the candidate in the stoke by-election as well. ok, chris, thank you for that, chris mason at westminster. footage has emerged of the moment the north korean leader's half brother was attacked at kuala lumpur airport in malaysia. a woman appears to cover his head with a cloth for a few seconds before walking away. kim jong—nam is then seen telling police what has happened. he collapsed shortly after and died. but north korea has questioned the identification of the man who died and has demanded the body. daniel boetcher reports. cctv footage at kuala lumpur international airport. a figure in a light suit with a bag slung over his shoulder walks th

ukip officials in merseyside have resigned from the party, claiming leader paul nuttall and donor arron banks cuts to uk time for the sport is to discuss. have been unsuccessful. archery, weightlifting, wheelchair rugby, fencing and badminton had their appeals rejected. badminton received almost £6 million in the last 0lympic cycle and actually achieved their medal target at the rio games. they say they are staggered by the decision. a little earlier i spoke to the olympic silver medallist and former world champion gail emms. iamon i am on the board, i know we did the best case for appeal. i cannot speak for uk sport, i'm speaking as a badminton player who knows that the funding is so important as a player to get in that their shape, the best contention to go for a medal. we're talking about sports that have medal potential for tokyo. we have not been able to stretch our resource as much as those who have some medal potential, not strong medal potential. the opportunity the sports had was to indicate and give us sports had was to indicate and give us evidence they had strong or probable medal

but it was this tweet from ukip donor arron banks that was the final straw. to be serving the party. i can still serve the people of this city, which i do every day anyway. but i'm not going to serve ukip if it's got arron banks as a donor, sorry. that is my argument. saying "this unprofessional approach émé mi; <§%6§*£’1’ " " . from high—profile people, closely within and without ukip, is upsetting and intolerable." paul nuttall is well aware that hillsborough remains a painful, sensitive issue here on merseyside. questions about his personal experience have dogged his bid for parliament in the stoke central by—election. and the timing of these resignations, just as voters are preparing to go to the polls, could hardly be worse. this was paul nuttall last week. neither he nor arron banks would comment today. the ukip leader says he was at hillsborough but he'd not lost close friends. there was a mistake on my website, which was put up by a press officer. i take full responsibility. it's now been taken down. i was there, i was at the game, i can prove i was a