A leading member of the UK Independence Party was today involved in a plane crash while making his final push for votes on polling day.
Nigel Farage - who before take-off was said to have joked “I just hope the plane doesn’t blow up and crash” - was trapped in the wreckage after his light aircraft, trailing a banner which read ‘Vote for your country - vote Ukip’, plunged to the ground at Hinton-in-the Hedges airfield in Northamptonshire just after 8am.