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The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that UKIP leader Nigel Farage was billed to appear on the BBC's Question Time last night but that, when the show was broadcast, it was his deputy Paul Nuttall who was on the panel instead.

It turns out Mr Farage missed the show, which was filmed in Bradford, after getting caught in a traffic jam on the A1.

During the evening, the UKIP leader, who was travelling from his home in Kent, tweeted that he was "at a standstill for 90 minutes". 

Highways England said the northbound section of the A1 was closed in Nottinghamshire after a fatal crash.

In 2014, Mr Farage missed a UKIP conference after getting stuck in traffic on the M4, which he blamed on high levels of immigration.

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Justice minister Dominic Raab says he can understand the "caucus of support" for Julian Assange given the Wikileaks revelations, but says it must be remembered this "poster child for human rights" has been accused of rape. Mr Assange, he tells the BBC, is entitled to a fair trial and asks if anyone is seriously suggesting he will not get one in Sweden. The cost of policing the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where the campaigner has been holed up since claiming asylum in 2012, has been "ridiculous" and an "abuse of the system", he argues. 

The head of the Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, says Poland is "satisfied" after meeting David Cameron in Warsaw to discuss his EU plan, Reuters reports.

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Writing in the 'i' newspaper, former Labour front bencher Chuka Umunna says, external the debate about whether Britain should remain in the EU is bigger than the issues of migration and the economy.

Mr Umunna, who is one of a number of spokesmen for the "Britain Stronger in Europe" campaign, writes: 

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Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said the UN working group's report on Julian Assange is "ridiculous" and that the WikiLeaks founder is a "fugitive from justice".

The panel found in favour of Mr Assange, saying he should be allowed to walk free and be compensated. Mr Assange faces extradition to Sweden over a rape claim and claimed asylum in London's Ecuadorean embassy in 2012.

Delays in discharging patients out of hospital after treatment could be costing the NHS in England £900m a year, an independent review has said.

Labour peer Lord Carter's report found nearly one in 10 beds was taken by someone medically fit to be released.

It said it was a "major problem" causing operations to be cancelled and resulting in the NHS paying private hospitals to see patients.

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The chairman of the Conservative Association in Rochester and Strood, Andrew Mackness, has accused David Cameron of showing "an absolute disrespect for the grassroots of the party".

He was reacting to comments made by the prime minister in the Commons earlier this week when he told Conservative MPs they should not vote to leave the EU based on what their constituency association might say and instead vote with their heart.

Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Mackness said: 

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The Ukip leader takes issue with David Cameron's recent statement that black boys in Britain are more likely to be in jail than at the country's top universities. On LBC radio, he says it's not a matter of black or white - that it's about class and that the proportions of black and Asian students at Oxford and Cambridge are similar to the general population.

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UKIP leader Nigel Farage is asked by a caller to comment on the apparent civil war in the Brexit camp between Leave.EU, which is backed by UKIP donor Arron Banks, and Vote Leave, which he describes as a "Westminster-based group" and a "Tory front".

Mr Farage says he has tried to get the two campaigns to merge, but claims Vote Leave "refuse to work with anybody".

He admits it could damage his cause if a truce cannot be arranged, but cannot resist a dig at Vote Leave bosses Matthew Elliott and Dominic Cummings, who he calls two "highly-paid apparatchiks".

The pair were moved to lower profile roles on Thursday, in what appeared to be an attempt to build bridges with Leave.EU, which it is now clear has not worked.

The two groups differ on tactics - Leave.EU want to focus more on immigration to persuade people to vote to get out of the EU. 

Mr Farage is heading up a third group, Grassroots Out, which is  holding a rally in Manchester later.

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Ukip leader Nigel Farage is beginning 30 minutes on LBC radio, taking calls from the public.

He begins by telling a caller that Britain is spending a billion pounds a month on foreign aid - "more than we spend on policing".

He questions whether the UN spends money well and says yesterday's conference in London on Syria was a "fund-raising conference for the UN". Money pledged by the UK yesterday, he said, should be taken out of the development budget.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be allowed to walk free and compensated for his "deprivation of liberty", a UN legal panel has found.

Mr Assange, 44 - who faces extradition to Sweden over a rape claim, which he denies - claimed asylum in London's Ecuadorean embassy in 2012.

He has been arbitrarily detained since his arrest in 2010, the panel said.

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Labour MP Harry Harpham has died from cancer at the age of 61.

He was elected as the MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough at the last general election after many years as a local politician. 

More detail now on how the Polish prime minister's support for David Cameron's proposals are qualified. The major sticking point appears to be the plan to limit new migrants' access to in-work benefits. Beata Szydlo told a joint press conference with Mr Cameron in Warsaw there were "always topics that need to be ironed out," adding that it was "very important" to Poland for Britain to stay in the EU. 

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo re-stated on Friday that Poland wanted Britain to stay in the European Union and said her cabinet supported some of its demands on reform. 

She said: 

 At the news conference in Warsaw, Beata Szydlo also said she saw a need to discuss the question of welfare benefits for Polish citizens living in Britain, while Mr Cameron said Britain wanted to see a "full strategic partnership between Poland and the United Kingdom":