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Ukip leader Henry Bolton has started a relationship with a younger woman less than half his age after splitting up with his wife.

Mr Bolton, 54, wrote to supporters to warn them to expect media coverage of a “change in my relationship status”, but denied that it amounted to a “clandestine affair”.

It is understood that he has been seeing Ukip supporter Jo Marney, 25, who describes herself in her Twitter profile as a “presenter, music journalist, model, actor, Brexiteer”.

Sources close to Mr Bolton insisted that the relationship did not begin until after his split from wife Tatiana, 42, who gave birth to their second daughter at London’s St Pancras Station in 2016 after going into labour on a train.

Mr Bolton said he had made clear on social media he had been spending time “with somebody who has become increasingly important to me”.