As it happened: Steven Woolfe in hospital and Labour reshuffle

Summary

UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe in hospital after reported altercation
Mr Woolfe was taken to hospital in Strasbourg for tests
Party releases statement from MEP saying he is sitting up
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn begins shadow cabinet reshuffle
Chief whip Rosie Winterton replaced by Nick Brown

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Aiden James and Esther Webber

UKIP colleagues send Woolfe their best wishespublished at 12:48 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe's condition 'serious'published at 12:48 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe is in a "serious" condition in hospital "following an altercation that took place at a meeting of Ukip MEPs this morning" in Strasbourg, Nigel Farage has said.
UKIP MEP taken to hospital in Strasbourgpublished at 12:35
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Alastair Campbell reviews Theresa May's speechpublished at 12:31 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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Listen: Sofa boss 'disappointed' by Rudd immigration commentspublished at 12:30 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
Today Programme
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Home Secretary Amber Rudd said on Wednesday that British firms should employ more British citizens, referring to one sofa manufacturer which "didn't even consider training locally" and chose to recruit outside the UK.Matt O'Flynn, the managing director of Hastings furniture firm Collins and Hayes, tells Today presenter Mishal Husain that Ms Rudd visited the factory in 2015 and she could have been referring to his company. He says her comments are "very disappointing".
Reports that Steven Woolfe collapsed during European Parliament sessionpublished at 12:22 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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UKIP leadership favourite Steven Woolfe reportedly collapsed during a session at the European Parliament.
The MEP is said to have been taken ill after walking out of a vote at the parliament in Strasbourg.
Suzanne Evans, UKIP's former deputy chair who is said to be considering her own leadership bid, tweeted:
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Raheem Kassam, who is also running to be Ukip leader, tweeted:
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First Minister's Questions gets startedpublished at 12:09 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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UKIP leadership contender Steven Woolfe taken to hospitalpublished at 12:06 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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A UKIP spokesman has confirmed MEP Steven Woolfe has been taken ill in Strasbourg and has been taken to hospital for tests.
How do people in Sunderland feel about the Brexit vote?published at 12:04 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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UKIP donor says Theresa May has rebranded Tories as UKIPpublished at 11:56 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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Government statement on fracking decisionpublished at 11:54 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
Following the government's ruling that horizontal fracking will go ahead in the UK shale gas industry, a spokesman for the Department of Communities and Local Government said:
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The decisions follow extensive consideration of all the evidence, including an independent planning inspector's report and evidence submitted during a two week public inquiry."
You can read the decision and access the full report here., external
Wales Bill still threatens rollback in powers, say AMspublished at 11:53 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
Plans to give more power to the assembly could still result in a "roll-back" of devolution, an assembly committee has claimed.
The Wales Bill, currently passing through Parliament, was revised earlier this year amid concern it could dilute the power of AMs to make laws.
But the cross-party constitutional and legislative affairs committee said the bill remains over-complicated.
The UK government claimed the bill would secure "stronger" devolution.
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On Thursday's Daily Politicspublished at 11:49 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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Amber Rudd speech 'deplorable' says Astronomer Royalpublished at 11:37 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
Newsnight
The Astronomer Royal, Prof Lord Rees, has referred to a speech made by Home Secretary Amber Rudd as "really deplorable".
Speaking at the Conservative Party conference Birmingham on Tuesday, Ms Rudd said new curbs on foreign workers and students were needed to "change the tide" of public opinion on immigration. She said students on "low-quality courses" could also face tougher entry rules.
But Lord Rees is concerned about the impact on UK science which, he says, has been strengthened by becoming "more international and far more involved with mainland Europe".
Newsnight examines Theresa May's conference speechpublished at 11:33 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
Newsnight compares Theresa May's closing speech to the Conservative conference on Wednesday to speeches given by Ed Miliband, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, John McDonnell and Gordon Brown.
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'Communities will do whatever they can to stop fracking' - Greenpeacepublished at 11:30 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
BBC News Channel
Hannah Martin from Greenpeace says the government's decision on fracking is a "clear overturning of local decmocracy".
"This is going to impact our air quality and our countryside," she tells BBC News, and makes "a mockery" of the UK's obligations under the Paris climate change agreement.
She accuses the industry of trying to "palm off local communities with the promise of, essentially, cash bribes" and rejects the industry's arguments that fracking would cut gas bills.
"To be truly 21st Century about this, we need to be investing in renewable and smart technologies," Ms Martin says, adding that local communities are "considering their legal options".
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There are are hundreds of people in the local community and thousands across the UK who don't want fracking to happen and will do whatever they can to stop it from happening."
Daily Politics looks at the 'dark art' of spinpublished at 11:30 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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'Bad day for local democracy' says shadow energy ministerpublished at 11:14 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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Shadow energy minister Barry Gardiner says the decision to allow fracking in Lancashire is "a very bad day for local democracy".
"It's also locking us into a dirty, fossil fuel infrastructure that really is the energy source of the past, instead of looking to the clean, new energy of low-carbon technologies like wind and solar," he tells the BBC News channel.
Gas "is a technology that really is in its declining years", the Labour MP claims.
Businesses react to Conservative plans for listing foreign workerspublished at 11:04 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
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Business owners have given a mixed reaction to government proposals that could require companies to disclose what percentage of their workforce is non-British.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd defended the plans for companies to do more to employ British people, saying she was not "racist" for talking about immigration.
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UKIP donor brands leadership 'clowns'published at 11:00 British Summer Time 6 October 2016
The Guardian
UKIP is being run by a bunch of "circus clowns", the party's leading financial backer, Arron Banks, has claimed.
Mr Banks called on UKIP's sole MP, Douglas Carswell, to be thrown out, writing in The Guardian, external: "This body is populated by a motley collection of amateurs; leftovers from a bygone age, when Ukip was a ragtag band of volunteers on the fringes of British politics.
"Watching them try to run the modern political movement that (Nigel) Farage built is like watching a team of circus clowns trying to carry out a pit stop at the Silverstone Grand Prix."