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Nigel Farage, the UK Independence Party candidate, had an extraordinary escape after his plane flipped upside down and nosedived into a field during an election stunt. The politician was pulled semi-conscious from the wreckage, his face swollen and blood running across his cheek, after the accident at Hinton-in-the-Hedges airfield, near Brackley, Northants

These new politicians have an eccentric policy goal: to destroy the Parliament to which they have been elected. Annabel Crabb reports from London.The new face of nationalism in Britain is unnaturally tanned, handsome and impeccably well known in Middle England. It belongs to Robert Kilroy-Silk, the former daytime chat show presenter who has become the British emblem of vaulting dissatisfaction with the European Union. The urbane, champagne-quaffing Kilroy-Silk campaigned in the European elections against abolition of the pound; his principal message is Save The Quid. Mr Kilroy-Silk is not short of one himself. The comfort of his 40.5-hectare estate in...