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The UK Independence Party's only MP, Douglas Carswell, has announced | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
In a statement on his website Mr Carswell said | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
that he was quitting the party in the knowledge that his goal | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
of leaving the European Union had been achieved. | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
He will now be sitting as an independent MP. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Our Political Correspondent Matt Cole has the story. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
It all began so well for Douglas Carswell and Ukip, first he joined | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
the party. I'm today leaving the Conservative Party and joining Ukip. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Then in the by-election he called to refight his seat, he delivered them | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
their first elected MP. UK Independence Party, Ukip 21,113. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Whilst he succeeded in holding the constituency in 2015's general | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
election, another party first, quickly soured. Shall we shake | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
hands? Always known as a man of independent political thought, Mr | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Carswell soon seemed to struggle to walk hand-in-hand with his new party | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
and its leader. Maybe you need a fresh faced approach sometimes. You | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
need a fresh face and an optimistic message. We've got one person who | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
happens to be an MP who consistently privately and publicly challenges my | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
leadership. The answer is very simple - Mr Carswell put up or shut | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
up. Even the common purpose of the EU referendum campaign saw key Ukip | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
figures and Douglas Carswell taking different approaches to campaigning | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
and whilst there was shared joy at the outcome, many in Ukip saw their | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
only MP as a source of division who should quit the party. He is now | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
doing that. Ukip says there should again be a by-election, but this | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
time Mr Carswell disagrees. In his online blog he says, "As he is not | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
recrossing the House of Commons floor, he doesn't need to put | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
himself before voters once more." Article 50, the membering chaen ym | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
for leaving the EU is set to be trigger on Wednesday and Mr Carswell | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
is full of praise for Ukip's role in bringing that about, but since the | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
referendum, there have been questions over the future purpose of | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Ukip, and their now ex-MP has decided whatever it is, it won't | :02:26. | :02:26. | |
involve him. There are people in Ukip who are | :02:27. | :02:44. | |
delighted he has left. Some say it would be more likely that the moon | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
would be made of cheese than he would be a Tory. Losing an MP, | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
despite getting four million votes in the general election in 2015, | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Ukip won't want to lose that and it is no surprise that we are hearing | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
calls from Ukip that there should be a by-election. Douglas Carswell says | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
this time because he is not crossing the House of Commons floor, because | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
he's not changing political persuasion he doesn't think needs to | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
be a by-election. I think Ukip as the hours progress from now, will be | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
more and more insistent there should be one. Matt, thank you. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
A former head of the Metropolitan Police has called for changes | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
to security at Westminster, following Wednesday's terror attack. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
The former Chief Constable Lord Blair said there should be a review | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
Two men from Birmingham continue to be questioned by police | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
Our correspondent Nick Beake reports. | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
The scramble of armed police in the aftermath of the Westminster attack. | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
New video taken by a taxi driver shows how marksmen swooped on | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Parliament from all directions. This footage shows medical equipment | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
being thrown to those treating the unarmed PC Keith Palmer. But it was | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
to know avail. Now, one former police chief in charge during the | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
London bombings 12 years ago, believes security at Westminster | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
needs to be tightened. I'm certain that there will be a review now of | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
the kind of outer soft rim always behind it is the inner core of armed | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
officers, but PC Keith Palmer has paid for his life for that soft | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
outer rim and I think his family at least and everybody else needs the | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
reassurance that that will be reviewed. The picture emerging of | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
the killer, Khalid Masood, is confused. A man described by some as | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
charming, also had a long history of violence. We know three minutes | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
before he launched his deadly attack, he checked messages on his | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
phone. Counter terror police will be desperate to know who he was last in | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
contact with. The key question why did Khalid Masood strike at | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
Westminster has still not been answered. It is not clear if someone | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
radicalised him here in the UK while he was in Saudi Arabia or maybe | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
during his three spells in prison. But senior Scotland Yard officers | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
tell me they are more concerned about the risk of people being brain | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
washed behind bars here than from Jihadis returning from abroad. 15 | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
people from the attack are still in hospital. Two of them critical. A | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
website set up in memory of PC Keith Palmer has raised almost ?750,000. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
A 17-year-old has died after collapsing in the ring | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
Eddie Bilbey, from Derbyshire, was competing in South Normanton | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
European Union leaders have marked the 60th anniversary of the EU's | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
founding treaty with a formal declaration promising | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
The meeting comes four days before Theresa May, | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
who is absent from the ceremony in Rome, is due to formally declare | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Damian Grammaticas reports from Rome. | :05:55. | :06:06. | |
Signing their new declaration of unity, the leaders of every EU | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
country were in Rome today except one, the UK on the point of | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
triggering its exit. Just as the union marks its 60th birthday. It | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
was founded in this very same room. 1957, Six Nations created an | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
economic partnership. Today, it has vastly expanded, but emerging from | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
an economic crisis and facing terrorism and refugees flows and | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Brexit. So 27 leaders struggled to fit into the same room. The Union | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
has its own currency, a single market and even an anthem. The EU's | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
leaders said it should not be forgotten that co-operation had | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
brought peace and prosperity to a Continent they remembered from their | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
childhoods being destroyed by war. It is a union that rose from the | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
Ashes of two world wars, shaped by the hands and by the iron will of | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
those that had returned from battlefields and concentration camps | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
only a few years earlier. I was eight years when the community | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
established a single council and a single commission through the | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
treaty. The road I then took to school every day still through the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
ruins of the burned city. For me, the Second World War is not an | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
obstruction. Outside supporters of the EU rallied | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
on Rome's streets. This was one of the several events in the city, but | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
just a few hundred turned out to it. The leaders' summit is in part about | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
charting a new few fewer for the EU, responding to the challenges they | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
face. But the crowds who've turned out aren't that big so the question | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
they have to answer is how to rekindle enthusiasm for the project? | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
With all the sport, here's Mike Bushell | :08:11. | :08:11. | |
Formula One is back, and so is Lewis Hamilton, | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
who dominated qualifying in Melbourne. | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
The era of faster, more demanding cars got off to a promising start, | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
as Hamilton claimed pole position at the Australian Grand Prix. | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
It looks as though we could see a real battle between Mercedes | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel finished second, with Hamilton's | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
new Mercedes team mate, Valtteri Bottas in third. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Sir Bradley Wiggins says he will "shock a few people", | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
once the UK anti-doping investigation into alleged | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
They're looking into the delivery of a package to Wiggins before | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
the 2011 Tour de France and speaking on Sky TV, Wiggins said | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
the claims were, in his words, "the worst thing to be accused | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
of for a man of my integrity" and promised he would have a lot to say. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
The Figure Skating World Championships begin | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
next week in Helsinki, but Great Britain's ice dancing | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
pair of Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland, won't be there. | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
They've competed at two Winter Olympics, but a serious | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
training accident for Coomes last summer put her skating | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
Now, though, Coomes IS, back on the ice and targeting next | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
David McDaid, has been following her recovery. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
After nine months and two operations, light at the end of the | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
tunnel. It's nice that it's starting to feel normal. I don't have any | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
pain anymore. Penny is half of Team's top GB figure skating pair, | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
but their season and almost her career was written off last June | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
after a fall in training. I broke nigh kneecap. I smashed it into | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
eight pieces. It happened in a split secondment one minute we're laughing | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
and giggling and fine and the next I'm on the floor screaming. They | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
said it was a career ending injury. That I'd completely messed up my | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
knee and I wouldn't have a normal knee and I wouldn't be able to walk | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
properly. After months out, Penny is ready to step back on the ice. The | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
fact that I feel it's going to be so good, I'm nervous that I'm wrong and | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
what happens if I fall? After a few minutes the results in. I just feel | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
like I got my leg back. Nine torturous months of pain over. I was | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
miserable. I'd wake up in the night with almost like a deep ache I | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
suppose. It took a while for me to kind of find myself again and find | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
that strength and get back to where I need to be, mentally. When I can | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
see Penny get back on the ice, it puts everything into prospective and | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
we're going to move into the same direction towards the goal that | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
we've had planned for a long time. And that common goal is getting to | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
next year's Winter Olympics, a dream that had looked an impossibility. It | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
just fills me with hope that I'm going to be able to do it and that | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
that dream that I have hasn't diminished. It's there. I just need | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
to work a little harder and I need a little bit more time, but I'm going | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
to get there. So although absent from the World Championships next | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
week, Coomes and Buckland are hopeful of starting on the | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
billingest stage of all next February. | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
You can watch the World Championships, on the BBC, | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
from Thursday afternoon on the red button. | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
And you can catch up, with all today's sport, | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
on Sportsday at 6.30pm and 7.30pm on BBC News. | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel. | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
The next news on BBC One is at 5.50pm. | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
Good afternoon. This broadcast last two minutes, but | :11:55. | :12:13. | |
it need only last | :12:14. | :12:14. |