This is the BBC.

Sometimes I dread the morning after the election night before.

All that spin, all that effort to put the best possible gloss on things,

all that unwillingness to accept reality.

But then occasionally, something takes you by surprise.

Think of the black death in the middle ages. It comes along and it causes disruption.

And then it goes dormant. And that's exactly what we're going to do.

Our time isn't finished because Brexit is being betrayed.

And they're just clarified as general secretary of UKIP.

You've just compared your party with the black death.

Absolutely. What's wrong with that?

Well, it's responsible for the death.

That was a breathtakingly gobsmackingly kind of general secretary of UKIP.

More from him, more about the local elections later.

But first, another pretty extraordinary week in politics.

BBC News at 11 o'clock.

In the past hour, Theresa May has accepted Amber Rudd's resignation as home secretary,

following increasing pressure.

Amber Rudd was always going to have to resign as home secretary.

There's no way she could have got through the Wynruc scandal.

He said that's not what anybody. Not what I said last week.

It wasn't inevitable that she had to go.

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