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Mr Kassam says he does feel he bears some responsibility for the current row. 

He adds: The characters that brought this up, namely Douglas Carswell and Patrick O’Flynn, are acting on purely selfish terms and they saw me as Nigel’s, sort of, body armour. And that if they went after me they would get to Nigel. 

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Mr Kassam says he has “no bearing over what Nigel chooses to do” and he has no input to the National Executive Committee (NEC).

But he says there was no one else in the party willing to take the reins of the party and find out whether it had held a successful or unsuccessful general election.

He says Mr Farage is the only person who could face up to the reality that the party only won one seat in the House of Commons despite gaining 4 million votes.

He claims the UKIP row is not about personality adding the issue is one of leadership.

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Raheem Kassam tells Today he doesn’t think he was aggressive in any way in what he was doing apart from being quite assured that Mr Farage needed to fight for the South Thanet seat more than he needed to travel to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland which is where, he says, a lot of the press office “were trying to drag him to”.

He says he believes the current row over UKIP’s leadership has more to do with certain members of the party not being able to get as much access to Mr Farage as they would have liked.

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Nigel Farage’s now former chief of staff Raheem Kassam tells the Today programme he was “quite surprised” that one of the party’s MEPs had made the comment about Mr Farage being badly advised. 

He says it was “unbefitting” of Patrick O’Flynn as “a senior member of the party” to break cover in the way that he did with his Times interview on Thursday. 

"I think there are better ways to deal with these things. I think these grievances should have been aired during the campaign period and it just strikes me as a little bit bizarrely opportune for this all to come out straight after the election," he says.

Philippe Sands QC a barrister at the Matrix Chambers and professor of international law at University College London has written for the Guardian, external about the proposed UK Bill of Rights as a replacement for the 1998 Human Rights Act.,

He served on the last government’s ill-fated commission on a bill of rights so he knows a thing or two about these things. And he's warned Michael Gove that his new role as justice secretary with a remit to come up with an alternative to the Act is a "poisoned chalice".

There are huge legal and constitutional problems with repealing the Act, Mr Sands warns, not least the fact that the act is embedded in devolution. More worryingly, repealing the Act poses a threat to the Good Friday Agreement. All because some Tory MPs "wish that foreign criminals could “be more easily deported from Britain”, and that the supreme court was the “ultimate arbiter of human rights matters in the UK”, he writes. 

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BBC Scotland correspondent Laura Bicker says with David Cameron and Nicola Sturgeon coming from two very different standpoints, we can expect today's meeting to be "very tense". 

The fact though that Mr Cameron is holding these talks so soon after the election is, she says, an indication of how seriously he is taking his pledge to make Holyrood "one of the most devolved parliaments in the world". 

However Ms Sturgeon sees the bill as "just a starting point" and will press for more control over welfare, business tax allowances and the minimum wage.

In other breaking news, the RMT union says UK rail workers are to stage a 24-hour strike from 5pm on Monday 25 May in a row over pay. So, if you were planning any longish trips the day after the bank holiday you might want to considering postponing them.

That SNP story is given further weight by The Times newspaper , external which has exactly the same quote (from the same source?) that "you only have to win once". Looks as if Mr Cameron is going to have a difficult day north of the border. It'll be worth watching the body language of him and Ms Sturgeon when they meet later.

Conservative MP David Jones isn't convinced about Nigel Farage's reasons for staying on as UKIP leader.

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As David Cameron and Nicola Sturgeon meet later today,the Daily Mail is warning, externalthat the Scottish first minister is prepared to push ahead with an unofficial second independence referendum if the prime minister refuses to grant one.

A senior party source in Westminster said Scots, who rejected independence last September, would choose to leave the UK if a vote was held tomorrow, telling the Mail: "You only have to win once."

If Westminster refused to allow another referendum, Holyrood could simply hold one unilaterally and declare secession if it returns a ‘yes’ vote, the source suggested to the paper. 

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BBC political correspondent Robin Brant tells the Today programme  that while he was defiant last night on Question Time Nigel Farage has been forced to concede on two issues. 

The first of those was his advisers, two of whom resigned from the party on Thursday. The second issue was that of the Short money and the row that erupted between Mr Farage and his only MP Douglas Carswell. That row has now been resolved with Mr Farage saying it won't take the full £650,000 allowance.

Robin says the stand Mr Carswell has taken over the Short money has left him in a much stronger position within UKIP.

But he says Mr Carswell and UKIP's economic spokesman Patrick O’Flynn didn’t want a change of leader but a change in the way in which the party was being run. 

Both believed that the focus on HIV migrants and IS during the general election was wrong. They believed the focus needed to be pulled back to Europe and the UK’s membership of the trading bloc.

"Mr Carswell didn’t want a change at the top, he doesn’t want to be leader," Robin says. But he did want UKIP to return to its main agenda of getting the UK out of Europe.

Here's a flavour of what we can expect today:

David Cameron will visit Edinburgh as part of a post-election tour of the UK where he'll hold talks with SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon. She'll be hoping to come out of them with something concrete. In a phone conversation shortly after the election, she "made it clear" to him that "it cannot be business as usual". Oh, to be a fly on the wall.

There's no let-up in the war raging within UKIP. Nigel Farage is insisting he will not stand down, as two of his aides quit. Last night he told BBC's Question Time it would be wrong to resign just as David Cameron is about to address UK's relationship with the EU.

We'll also be on Labour leader contenders' watch. There are five names in the hat so far - Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham, Chuka Umunna, Liz Kendall and Mary Creagh. Tristram Hunt has left us hanging. Could there be a sixth today?

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Good morning. Politics Live is back with you from an overcast Westminster to bring you all the latest on that UKIP bust-up, the talks between the prime minister and Nicola Sturgeon and plenty more.