Nigel Farage and his 'ex-mistress' are dragged into Ukip leadership farce over claims he regarded his successor Diane James as 'an utter b****'

The abuse is contained in a leaked email sent by Annabelle Fuller (right), who was once named in the European Parliament as Farage's mistress.


She now works for Mike Hookem, the Ukip MEP accused of hitting party leadership favourite Steven Woolfe last week in Strasbourg. Both Farage and Fuller vehemently deny any affair. Woolfe was one of the recipients of the 'utter bitch' email, sent as Diane James (left) was standing for Ukip in the Eastleigh by-election in February 2013. In the message, dated a fortnight before James came within a whisker of claiming victory, Fuller said: 'I understand from the man who knows best we've been lumbered with an utter bitch who is Marta Mk 2.' 'Marta Mk 2' is a reference to former Ukip MEP Marta Andreasen, who enraged Farage by defecting to the Conservatives in 2013, calling him 'anti-women' and a 'Stalinist dictator'.