Nigel Farage has been attacked with a milkshake during a campaign stop in Newcastle. The Brexit Party leader was furious with his security team and later said that "normal campaigning is becoming impossible".
It came as Theresa May was set to make a last-ditch offer to MPs in a fourth attempt to win support for her Brexit deal, even as the race to replace her as Conservative leader continues. She will enter discussions with senior ministers after cross-party talks with Labour broke down last week.
Her plan has yet to be finalised, but it is understood to include additional protection on workers’ rights and the environment, as well as clarification of how the UK will seek to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. There is scepticism throughout Westminster about its chances of passing.
But the PM suffered a blow when the EU Commission said it would not revisit the withdrawal agreement.
It came as the Liberal Democrats warned that British consumers could face a greater risk of exploitation after Brexit if the UK loses the EU's clout to fine multinational companies.
New analysis by the party shows 44 companies have been fined a total of €13.8bn (£12.1bn) by the European Commission since May 2017, for offences that increase prices and reduce choice for consumers, such as operating cartels, abusing market dominance and misleading competition authorities.
And away from Brexit, the new defence secretary, Penny Mordaunt, was forced to order an urgent review of a secret policy under fire for allowing ministers to share intelligence with allies even if there is a risk of torture.
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When asked if he didn't want to because he had 1 per cent grassroots support in a recent poll he said: "No, because the contest hasn't started yet.
"I have a strong view about the sort of leader that we need - we need a leader not just for now but also for the future, we need to be absolutely four-square in the centre-ground of British.
"Both parties bang on day after day about independence, continuously ratcheting up the decibel levels with their ever-more hard-line policy stances - the SNP for all-out independence, nothing less, that now has become even more extreme with their plans to abandon the British pound and exit the UK customs union and single market - which would not now count as a soft independence, but a hard independence.
"Meanwhile, the Conservatives increasingly reveal their hand as hostile to devolution - and because in Scotland they can't talk about Europe or about their policy for austerity they talk about nothing else than the constitutional issues."
"People are just jealous of our success and the fact we're on course to win these elections," he said.
"We've got a Paypal account for people paying less than £500; above that we apply the appropriate Electoral Commission rules.
Asked whether he had just confirmed that the party did take cash from foreign citizens, Mr Tice said: "I don't sit in front of the Paypal account all day so I don't know what currencies people are paying in, but, as I understand it, the Paypal takes it in sterling."
"And even if Boris says, 'It's OK Nigel, I didn't really mean to vote for it...', how can I trust what he says, how can I believe anything any of these two mainstream parties tell us after three years of, frankly, open lies and deceit?"
Mr Farage's Brexit Party is currently leading in the polls ahead of Thursday's European elections.
"There are no simple answers to complex questions," she said.
"A pragmatic, compassionate centre right has never been more vital."
The creation of the group is viewed as an attempt to prevent hard Brexiteers from taking the UK out of the EU without a deal.
Former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey will also set out her leadership pitch at the launch of Blue Collar Conservatism, a group created to persuade working class voters to opt for the Tories.
Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson has already confirmed that he will stand in the leadership election.
"So if he wants people to even consider listening to Labour on anything, Mr Brown should start by apologising to Scotland for the mess he has helped create.
"While Labour are all over the place on Brexit, a vote for the SNP is a vote to stop Brexit."
"Our democracy is basically up for sale."
