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The UK Independence Party's only MP, Douglas Carswell, has announced

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In a statement on his website Mr Carswell said

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that he was quitting the party in the knowledge that his goal

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of leaving the European Union had been achieved.

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He will now be sitting as an independent MP.

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Our Political Correspondent Matt Cole has the story.

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It all began so well for Douglas Carswell and Ukip, first he joined

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the party. I'm today leaving the Conservative Party and joining Ukip.

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Then in the by-election he called to refight his seat, he delivered them

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their first elected MP. UK Independence Party, Ukip 21,113.

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Whilst he succeeded in holding the constituency in 2015's general

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election, another party first, quickly soured. Shall we shake

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hands? Always known as a man of independent political thought, Mr

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Carswell soon seemed to struggle to walk hand-in-hand with his new party

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and its leader. Maybe you need a fresh faced approach sometimes. You

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need a fresh face and an optimistic message. We've got one person who

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happens to be an MP who consistently privately and publicly challenges my

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leadership. The answer is very simple - Mr Carswell put up or shut

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up. Even the common purpose of the EU referendum campaign saw key Ukip

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figures and Douglas Carswell taking different approaches to campaigning

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and whilst there was shared joy at the outcome, many in Ukip saw their

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only MP as a source of division who should quit the party. He is now

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doing that. Ukip says there should again be a by-election, but this

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time Mr Carswell disagrees. In his online blog he says, "As he is not

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recrossing the House of Commons floor, he doesn't need to put

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himself before voters once more." Article 50, the membering chaen ym

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for leaving the EU is set to be trigger on Wednesday and Mr Carswell

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is full of praise for Ukip's role in bringing that about, but since the

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referendum, there have been questions over the future purpose of

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Ukip, and their now ex-MP has decided whatever it is, it won't

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involve him. There are people in Ukip who are

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delighted he has left. Some say it would be more likely that the moon

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would be made of cheese than he would be a Tory. Losing an MP,

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despite getting four million votes in the general election in 2015,

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Ukip won't want to lose that and it is no surprise that we are hearing

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calls from Ukip that there should be a by-election. Douglas Carswell says

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this time because he is not crossing the House of Commons floor, because

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he's not changing political persuasion he doesn't think needs to

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be a by-election. I think Ukip as the hours progress from now, will be

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more and more insistent there should be one. Matt, thank you.

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A former head of the Metropolitan Police has called for changes

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to security at Westminster, following Wednesday's terror attack.

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The former Chief Constable Lord Blair said there should be a review

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Two men from Birmingham continue to be questioned by police

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Our correspondent Nick Beake reports.

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The scramble of armed police in the aftermath of the Westminster attack.

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New video taken by a taxi driver shows how marksmen swooped on

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Parliament from all directions. This footage shows medical equipment

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being thrown to those treating the unarmed PC Keith Palmer. But it was

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to know avail. Now, one former police chief in charge during the

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London bombings 12 years ago, believes security at Westminster

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needs to be tightened. I'm certain that there will be a review now of

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the kind of outer soft rim always behind it is the inner core of armed

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officers, but PC Keith Palmer has paid for his life for that soft

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outer rim and I think his family at least and everybody else needs the

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reassurance that that will be reviewed. The picture emerging of

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the killer, Khalid Masood, is confused. A man described by some as

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charming, also had a long history of violence. We know three minutes

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before he launched his deadly attack, he checked messages on his

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phone. Counter terror police will be desperate to know who he was last in

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contact with. The key question why did Khalid Masood strike at

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Westminster has still not been answered. It is not clear if someone

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radicalised him here in the UK while he was in Saudi Arabia or maybe

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during his three spells in prison. But senior Scotland Yard officers

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tell me they are more concerned about the risk of people being brain

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washed behind bars here than from Jihadis returning from abroad. 15

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people from the attack are still in hospital. Two of them critical. A

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website set up in memory of PC Keith Palmer has raised almost ?750,000.

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A 17-year-old has died after collapsing in the ring

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Eddie Bilbey, from Derbyshire, was competing in South Normanton

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European Union leaders have marked the 60th anniversary of the EU's

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founding treaty with a formal declaration promising

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The meeting comes four days before Theresa May,

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who is absent from the ceremony in Rome, is due to formally declare

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Damian Grammaticas reports from Rome.

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Signing their new declaration of unity, the leaders of every EU

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country were in Rome today except one, the UK on the point of

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triggering its exit. Just as the union marks its 60th birthday. It

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was founded in this very same room. 1957, Six Nations created an

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economic partnership. Today, it has vastly expanded, but emerging from

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an economic crisis and facing terrorism and refugees flows and

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Brexit. So 27 leaders struggled to fit into the same room. The Union

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has its own currency, a single market and even an anthem. The EU's

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leaders said it should not be forgotten that co-operation had

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brought peace and prosperity to a Continent they remembered from their

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childhoods being destroyed by war. It is a union that rose from the

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Ashes of two world wars, shaped by the hands and by the iron will of

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those that had returned from battlefields and concentration camps

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only a few years earlier. I was eight years when the community

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established a single council and a single commission through the

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treaty. The road I then took to school every day still through the

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ruins of the burned city. For me, the Second World War is not an

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obstruction. Outside supporters of the EU rallied

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on Rome's streets. This was one of the several events in the city, but

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just a few hundred turned out to it. The leaders' summit is in part about

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charting a new few fewer for the EU, responding to the challenges they

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face. But the crowds who've turned out aren't that big so the question

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they have to answer is how to rekindle enthusiasm for the project?

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With all the sport, here's Mike Bushell

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Formula One is back, and so is Lewis Hamilton,

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who dominated qualifying in Melbourne.

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The era of faster, more demanding cars got off to a promising start,

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as Hamilton claimed pole position at the Australian Grand Prix.

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It looks as though we could see a real battle between Mercedes

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Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel finished second, with Hamilton's

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new Mercedes team mate, Valtteri Bottas in third.

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Sir Bradley Wiggins says he will "shock a few people",

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once the UK anti-doping investigation into alleged

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They're looking into the delivery of a package to Wiggins before

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the 2011 Tour de France and speaking on Sky TV, Wiggins said

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the claims were, in his words, "the worst thing to be accused

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of for a man of my integrity" and promised he would have a lot to say.

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The Figure Skating World Championships begin

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next week in Helsinki, but Great Britain's ice dancing

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pair of Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland, won't be there.

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They've competed at two Winter Olympics, but a serious

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training accident for Coomes last summer put her skating

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Now, though, Coomes IS, back on the ice and targeting next

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David McDaid, has been following her recovery.

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After nine months and two operations, light at the end of the

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tunnel. It's nice that it's starting to feel normal. I don't have any

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pain anymore. Penny is half of Team's top GB figure skating pair,

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but their season and almost her career was written off last June

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after a fall in training. I broke nigh kneecap. I smashed it into

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eight pieces. It happened in a split secondment one minute we're laughing

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and giggling and fine and the next I'm on the floor screaming. They

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said it was a career ending injury. That I'd completely messed up my

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knee and I wouldn't have a normal knee and I wouldn't be able to walk

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properly. After months out, Penny is ready to step back on the ice. The

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fact that I feel it's going to be so good, I'm nervous that I'm wrong and

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what happens if I fall? After a few minutes the results in. I just feel

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like I got my leg back. Nine torturous months of pain over. I was

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miserable. I'd wake up in the night with almost like a deep ache I

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suppose. It took a while for me to kind of find myself again and find

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that strength and get back to where I need to be, mentally. When I can

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see Penny get back on the ice, it puts everything into prospective and

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we're going to move into the same direction towards the goal that

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we've had planned for a long time. And that common goal is getting to

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next year's Winter Olympics, a dream that had looked an impossibility. It

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just fills me with hope that I'm going to be able to do it and that

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that dream that I have hasn't diminished. It's there. I just need

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to work a little harder and I need a little bit more time, but I'm going

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to get there. So although absent from the World Championships next

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week, Coomes and Buckland are hopeful of starting on the

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billingest stage of all next February.

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You can watch the World Championships, on the BBC,

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from Thursday afternoon on the red button.

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And you can catch up, with all today's sport,

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on Sportsday at 6.30pm and 7.30pm on BBC News.

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You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.

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The next news on BBC One is at 5.50pm.

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Good afternoon. This broadcast last two minutes, but

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it need only last

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