Update 4.15pm: It is understood that Mr Woolfe passed out after suffering what were described as two "epileptic-like fits" as well numbness on the left hand side of his body.

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Ukip is facing a “fight for survival” after popular leadership hopeful Steven Woolfe was excluded from the race to replace Nigel Farage, it has been claimed.

An Irish man has won an action against Britain over the insistence his Colombian-born wife needed a visa to enter the country.

The European Commission’s new president, Jean-Claude Juncker, comfortably survived a no confidence vote yesterday brought over news that Luxembourg had lured multinational businesses with super low tax rates during his period as prime minister.

Britain’s relations with the EU took another knock yesterday when its legal challenge to a limit on bankers’ bonuses was rejected by an adviser to the bloc’s top court.