Nigel Farage fires his closest rivals in UKIP despite 'quitting'

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Nigel Farage tonight sought revenge for the plot to oust him as Ukip leader as two of the party’s most senior figures lost their jobs.

Ukip deputy chairman Suzanne Evans, who wrote the party’s general election manifesto, was sacked from her role as policy chief.

While Patrick O’Flynn stepped down as the party's economic spokesman and made a humiliating apology to Mr Farage for publicly calling him ‘snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive’.