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UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe has reportedly regained consciousness after an “altercation” at the European Parliament. UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe has regained consciousness after an “altercation” at the European Parliament.
The party’s interim leader Nigel Farage said Mr Woolfe is conscious and “mildly better”. Mr Woolfe was rushed to hospital after collapsing minutes after the incident in which A Ukip colleague allegedly punched him in the face.
According to the Politico’s Tara Palmeri who is in Strasbourg where Mr Woolfe has been hospitalised, UKIP MEP Nathan Gill said Mr Woolfe was now “conscious and recovering”. Speaking from his hospital bed, Mr Woolfe said: “The CT scan has shown that there is no blood clot in the brain.
She said his condition was not life-threatening. “At the moment I am feeling brighter, happier and smiling as ever.
In an update she added Mr Woolfe was “sitting up, seems to be fine, has numbness around his eye and cheek bone.” “As a precaution, I am being kept overnight awaiting secondary tests to make sure everything is fine.
She added the hospital was “going to keep him overnight for bloodtests”.  He added: “I would like everyone to know that the parliamentary staff, the UKIP MEPs with me and the hospital staff have been brilliant.
More follows... “I am sitting up, and said to be looking well. The only consequence at the moment is a bit of numbness on the left hand side of my face.”
According to Herman Kelly, the director of a European Parliament group affiliated with Ukip, Mr Woolfe suffered two “epileptic-like fits”.
“He did pass out. That has now passed,” he added.
Mr Woolfe was hospitalised after collapsing, minutes after an “altercation” in which a UKIP MEP is alleged to have punched Mr Woolfe in the face.
He was seen to collapse on one of the European Parliament’s internal bridges.
The “altercation” reportedly occurred during a Ukip meeting to “clear the air” amid the party’s ongoing leadership crisis.
Mr Woolfe had been said to be considering a defection to the Conservative party.
But in a statement he said despite being “enthused” by Theresa May, he “came to the conclusion that only a strong Ukip can guarantee Brexit is delivered in full, and only our party can stand up for the communities of the Midlands and the north.”
On Wednesday, Mr Woolfe announced his intention to run as the party’s leader after Diane James stepped down having spent just 18 days at the helm.