At a private meeting of UKIP's Euro-MPs in Brussels, Roger Knapman, the party leader, and his allies will vent their fury on the former television presenter.

However, The Telegraph understands they will stop short of direct threats to expel Mr Kilroy-Silk, even though the idea has been discussed.

A far more poisonous piece against Mr Kilroy-Silk, very possibly the result of the UKIP 'smear campaign' we forecast yesterday, appears in The Guardian. Unsurprisingly for a paper dedicated to the destruction of any anti-EU movement successfully gaining popularity within Europe, the paper makes much of the present corrupt UKIP leadership's attempts to cling to power, on the ludicrous assertion that a Kilroy leadership could potentially be less electorally attractive. The article may be read from here - who might have done the briefing? Perhaps it is a co-incidence that Nigel Farage was quoted extensively only yesterday in the same paper's Diary column!

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