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Steven Woolfe, the MEP who spent three days in hospital after an altercation at a Ukip meeting, said he was resigning from the party, which was in a ‘death spiral’. Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party, told its annual conference that an independence referendum bill would be published for consultation this week. A decision on airport expansion in England was postponed again, and Downing Street said that ministers would be allowed to express their personal opinions. Olympic athletes in a parade in Manchester were joined on an open-topped bus by two young impostors wearing Team GB tracksuits and plastic medals.
The annual rate of inflation measured by the Consumer Prices Index rose to 1 per cent in September from 0.6 per cent in August, reflecting a fall in fuel prices a year earlier; by the Retail Prices Index, the rise was to 2, from 1.8
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