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UKIP leadership favourite Steven Woolfe quits the 'ungovernable' party after fight

Oscar Williams-GrutOct 17, 2016, 22:58 IST

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Steven Woolfe has quit UKIP.

Woolfe was favourite to replace Nigel Farage as leader of the party but was hospitalised in Brussels earlier this month in an alleged fight with a UKIP MEP.

The BBC and Lucy Fisher, senior political correspondent with The Times, are reporting that Woolfe, also an MEP, has issued a statement saying the party is "ungovernable without Nigel Farage leading it and without the referendum cause to unite it." He is abandoning his leadership bid and resigning the party.

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