Mass immigration and Islam are harming British culture - but there should be no cap on the number of migrants who can come to the country, Ukip's new leader has said.

Former Ukip leadership contender Steven Woolfe has announced he has quit the party and had made a police complaint over the altercation with a fellow MEP which left him in hospital.

The Ukip MEP involved in the altercation which left leadership contender Steven Woolfe in hospital has said he acted in self-defence.

Nigel Farage - currently the UKIP party's interim leader - confirmed he has ordered an investigation into what happened in the parliament building.

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.

Ukip’s only MP has issued a fresh call for party leader Nigel Farage to stand down in favour of someone who radiated “sunshine and optimism”.

Former M&S boss Lord Rose claims the UK risks 'leaping into the unknown' if it pulls out of the European Union.

Ukip MEP Patrick O’Flynn has stepped down as the party’s economic spokesman and apologised to leader Nigel Farage for publicly calling him “snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive”.

Nigel Farage’s chief of staff has left his post as the Ukip leader faces rapidly rising pressure to hold on to his job.

Classic slip of the tongue!

BBC journalist Norman Smith had a rather unfortunate slip of the tongue during a live discussion about leadership issues within the UK Independence Party (Ukip).

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s anti-EU UK Independence Party, withdrew his resignation after tendering it last week over his failure to win a seat in the British parliament.

Nigel Farage has had his resignation as leader of the UK Independence Party rejected by the party's national executive committee and he remains as leader.

Enda Kenny says the Marriage Equality Referendum has nothing to do with children or religion, a Maynooth student develops an app which rates business’ wheelchair accessibility, Nigel Farage has his resignation as leader of UKIP rejected and remains as leader and Barcelona and Messi signal they mean business. Catch up with this evening’s top and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Ukip’s only sitting MP has ruled himself out of the race to be the party’s next leader.

Check out his face!

Nigel Farage today confirmed he would be stepping down as Ukip leader after failing to win Thanet South from the Conservatives.

Ukip has suspended a UK General Election candidate for ``abhorrent'' abuse about a rival - including racial slurs and a threat to shoot him should he ever become prime minister.

A man has been charged after an alleged threat to behead a Ukip election candidate.

You might have guessed that they’re having a General Election in the UK at the moment, so there’s lots of politicians out hunting for votes.

Nigel Farage has repeated his reasoning for comments he made about foreign HIV patients in Britain.

The centre has held in Europe with the pro-EU parties taking most of the seats, says Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill.

British prime minister David Cameron will be forced to step up his drive to claw back powers from the EU to head off a challenge to his leadership after losing votes to the anti-EU UK Independence Party, its leader Nigel Farage said.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage ended up in knots in a car-crash interview as he suggested there was no problem with his wife’s first language being German because she did not speak it on British trains.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage was hit by an egg thrown by a protester as he arrived on a campaign visit in Nottingham, England today.

A 37-year-old man has been charged with assaulting Ukip leader Nigel Farage after he was allegedly hit over the head with a placard outside a seaside hotel.

Nigel Farage has accused the media of unfairly highighting the views of a UK Independence Party (Ukip) councillor about the floods and gay marriage – as he claimed the three main political parties were “scared witless” of his party.