Diane James: First female leader for Ukip

As for Farage, he still plans to lead Ukip in the European Parliament, but he promised to stay out of James’ way.

While tensions between prominent UKIP members such as Suzanne Evans, Douglas Carswell and Nigel Farage have been simmering for some time, the leadership campaign has further illustrated that the party is far from united.

If you had to pick how Nigel Farage would have celebrated his final conference as the leader of Ukip, yes, you might have said a beer or two, but would you have thought of him skinny dipping?

Dartford family lawyer Elizabeth Jones is also in the running as an outsider with Lisa Duffy, Bill Etheridge, and Phillip Broughton making up the full list of candidates.

“I think Nigel eventually just threw his hands up and went ‘Well, what’s the point?'”.

“Just remember where we are and what you’ve asked me to take on. we were the third political force in that general election”.

In sharp criticism she said the party had become more “aggressive and testosterone-fuelled” in the later stages of Mr Farage’s leadership and infighting had taken hold.

She said her focus would be on party policies for the next general election, whenever it might be, describing Ukip as the “opposition party in waiting”.

Diane James has been unveiled as Ukip’s new leader at the party’s conference in Bournemouth this afternoon (16 September).

Mr Hamilton – who seized the Welsh Assembly top job from Nathan Gill in a 4-3 vote slammed by Farage – hit back at his new leader.

But later, James apologised, saying her comments were not supposed to be a “generalisation against every single individual born with a Romanian passport”.

She told the Southern Daily Echo she had been a long-time Conservative supporter until becoming “totally disillusioned” with its leadership in the 2000s.

It’s no good for Ukip, and I don’t think looking at him, and he doesn’t look very happy, I can’t believe it’s very good for him either. “We should be the party people vote for if they want change”.

She said: “And Mrs May – from one grammar school girl to another, stop the faff, stop the fudge and the farce, get on with it”.

He went onto claim that Ukip had “changed the course of British history” and suggested that the party had “brought down a prime minister” and had “got rid of a chancellor”.

Most recently, US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has warned that Russia is supporting her Republican rival, Donald Trump, by leaking hacked information that experts said they had linked to Russian state-sponsored actors.

Thanking campaigners and activists for their work in securing a Brexit win, he said: ‘And now, folks, I want my life back’.

She said she was “truly honoured” to “take it on from Nigel”, and added: “Project Fear tactics have had their days and we are going to ensure they never rise from the political ashes ever again”.