UKIP members vote to remove scandal-hit leader: chairman

Members of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) voted today to remove their leader Henry Bolton following a scandal over his private life, plunging the anti-EU, anti-immigration group into fresh crisis.

At a special general meeting in the central English city of Birmingham, 63 percent of members endorsed a vote of no confidence in Bolton made last month by the party's ruling committee, chairman Paul Oakden said.