webb, the former pensions minister, there. ukip's ruling national executive committee will meet today for a specially—convened meeting to discuss the controversy surrounding the pa rty‘s leader, henry bolton. mr after it was reported his girlfriend sent a series of offensive texts, including racist comments about prince harry's fiancee, meghan markle. our political correspondent emma vardy is here. he has been fighting, mr bolton, a bit of a rearguard action today, doing lots of interviews, defending his position, trying to shore up his position as leader. yes, he's appeared on three sunday morning political discussion shows, fighting to keep hisjob. he says the relationship is over and that he is 110w relationship is over and that he is now completely focused on taking ukip forward. the problem is, though, he has lost a lot of confidence within the party. there have been many ukip meps and other party figures coming out and calling for him to go saying it has become an embarrassment and too much of destruction, the many headlines that we re destruction, the many headlines that were created during his short relationship with jo were created during his short relationship withjo marney were cre