the i weekend has an interview with ukip donor arron banks who says he'll stand against the party's onlyith sir bruce forsyth‘s health scare after he was treated for five days in intensive care for a chest infection. the daily mail has the story of a mother who has one month to trial pioneering treatment for her severely ill baby, despite doctors saying he should be allowed to die. that is a flavour of what is in the papers tomorrow. the number of workers on zero hours contracts has reached a record high over the course of last year — close to a million people. but the new figures also reveal an indication that big companies may now be going off the idea of zero hours contracts as our economics editor kamal ahmed reports. nadine cooperfrom spalding in lincolnshire. she sorts and packs potatoes and is on a zero hours contract — no guarantee about the amount of work she will do each week. it is flexible and it fits with her family life. nadine is one of that large band of employees happy on a controversial contract. it is good for me because it gives me family quality time as well. when my

know that relations between you and the previous leadership of ukip, nigel farage, their backer arron bankse. how much has that influenced your decision? i rarely made any big decisions in politics with reference to either of those two individuals and their priorities. my decision to trigger a by—election was in order to make sure we got a referendum. my decision to back vote leave was in order to make sure that the right people ran the right sort of campaign. when i called the by—election and celebrated the victory in the clacton by—election i talked about the need for a eurosceptism that appealed to all britain and all britons and i feel very much that you win in politics from parish councils to referendums by being positive and optimistic. i listened to all sorts of criticism and advice from some people who were perhaps, you know, take a different view. i wish them well. earlier i spoke to peter whittle, deputy leader of ukip who gave his thoughts on why douglas carswell had decided to leave the party. i mean, the fact is that the people who voted for ukip and voted all the way along for

everything i do is unofficial, as for the embassy, i understand arron banks has taken a five year leasencidentally, will have a very good dining room and wine cellar, beyond that, i don't... dining room and wine cellar, beyond that, idon't... it dining room and wine cellar, beyond that, i don't... it sounds like fun but beyond that... it is my neighbourhood, i will be round the corner. please, come and visit. i have do ask you about a photograph which you are aware is doing the rounds on social media, you coming out of the ecuadorian embassy, i think your radio producer is in total, so i perhaps know why you we re total, so i perhaps know why you were there, it has been said on twitter that you have been there to interviewjulian twitter that you have been there to interview julian assange twitter that you have been there to interviewjulian assange and there is also the talk that you are serving as a back channel tojulian assange for the trump team. all i can tell you is that i was in the building today, as you know, the ecuadorian and the colombian assembly, assemblies, embassies are in

ukip's biggest financial backer arron banks has announced that his membership of the party has been suspendedpokesman said that the millionaire's membership had lapsed earlier this year. mr banks, who is a close friend of former leader nigel farage and funded the leave eu campaign in last year's brexit referendum, gave £1 million to ukip ahead of the 2015 general election. but he has been sceptical about the leadership of paul nuttall and has recently spoken of founding a new political movement to "drain the swamp" of westminster politics. norman, tell us what the implications are. more trouble and strife in ukip as if they had not had enough. but now we have aaron banks saying he has been booted out of the party. he says, i understand why my ukip membership has been suspended, interesting times lie ahead. people say he said that the current leadership could not knock the skin off a rice pudding. they are still mulling it over, say uk, and no decision has been made to boot him out. the new leader paul nuttall would like to talk to him about his attitude towards ukip. mr banks threatened to st

know that relations between you and the previous leadership of ukip, nigel farage, their backer arron bankscision to trigger a by—election was in order to make sure we got a referendum. my decision to back vote leave was in order to make sure that the right people ran the right sort of campaign. when i called the by—election and celebrated the victory in the clacton by—election i talked about the need for a eurosceptism that appealed to all britain and all britons and i feel very much that you win in politics from parish councils to referendums by being positive and optimistic. i listened to all sorts of criticism and advice from some people who were perhaps, you know, take a different view. i wish them well. but nobody listening to you would use the term is positive and optimistic to describe the atmosphere at the top of ukip? it has been very suspicious and openly hostile towards you. yesterday, if we we re hostile towards you. yesterday, if we were having this interview you could expect me to answer on their behalf. one of the things about today, it is a beautiful spring day but i do not