Nigel Farage announces he is quitting UKIP

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has announced he is quitting the party.Mr Farage has called for the party's current leader, Gerard Batten, to be ousted after he appointed political activist Tommy Robinson as an adviser.Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Mr Farage said: "And so, with a heavy heart, and after all my years of devotion to the party, I am leaving UKIP today.