The Conservatives captured a region that Labour have held since 1935, the first by-election gain for a governing party for 35 years

UK May's Conservatives gain parliamentary seat as rivals suffer election setbacks

Paul Nuttal asked the party to keep pressuring the government for 'real Brexit'

UK Independence Party elects new leader to replace Nigel Farage

One report said Diane James was shaken after she was spat at on a train last week

James, who replaced Nigel Farage, was announced as the new party head following a ballot of UKIP's 40,000 members

The party said that Steven Woolfe had been excluded from the leadership race after submitting his nomination papers 17 minutes late

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