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Thursday, October 6, 2016
UKIP frontrunner collapses after EU parliament ‘altercation’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA top candidate to lead Britain’s anti-Europe UK Independence Party (UKIP), Steven Woolfe, collapses and is taken to the hospital after an “altercation” at the European Parliament, former party leader Nigel Farage says.
The incident comes just a day after UKIP’s new leader Diane James quit unexpectedly only 18 days into her reign as Farage’s successor, as the party grapples with infighting following Britain’s vote to leave the EU.
Farage says Woolfe is in “serious” condition in hospital “following an altercation that took place at a meeting of UKIP MEPs this morning” at the parliament.” He does not provide further details.
A UKIP spokesman says Woolfe “was taken suddenly ill in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg this morning. He has been taken to hospital in the city and he is undergoing tests.”
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— UK Independence Party (@UKIP) October 6, 2016
— AP
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