WATCH: EU farewells 3) Farage waves the Union goodbye

“Once we’ve left, we are never coming back – and rest, frankly, is detail. We’re going: we will be gone.”

Iain Dale: Gulp – here’s my prediction for the election result

I’ve been nervous after last time – but here goes. Plus: Farage is having a dreadful campaign. And why election night TV will never be the same again.

The Moggcast. “It’s such a pity that Nigel hasn’t worked out that he’s won.”

How will the election pan out? “Ask Sir John Curtice,” Rees-Mogg tells us. Plus: Bercow’s partiality “was damaging to the position of Speaker”.

WATCH: Farage announces he won’t be standing in the General Election

“I’ve thought very hard about this: how do I serve the cause of Brexit best?”

WATCH: Johnson on the Brexit Party – “The only consequence of voting for them…is that you’ll get Jeremy Corbyn”

The Prime Minister says he has ruled out a pact with any party, for the same reason.

Johnson’s real plan. To get a deal – and stuff the Spartans.

Don’t be so distracted by the actors – and all the talk of deselection and elections – as to miss the drama’s bigger picture.

So you’ve decided to set up a new party. Eight tips from UKIP’s experience.

The SDP analogies are all wrung dry. But nobody has looked at what a more recent insurgency can teach the new outfit.

Hugo Lucas: We aren’t saying that young people matter more than older people, Chloe. We’re simply saying that they matter.

It is a glaring act of mental collectivisation to lump Our Future, Our Choice in with those who think that over 75s should not be allowed to vote.

Grayling, Patten, the Far Right, the IRA, Brexit, the Speaker – and the difference between a threat and a warning

If two men are in a car, and the passenger says to the driver: “Look out! You’re going to crash,” he is shouting out the second, not the first.

“Nigel always wins” was the iron rule of UKIP in-fighting. But no longer – so he is off.

UKIP’s dominant figure tried and failed to keep his party free of Tommy Robinson’s poison. The worst possible people are taking over at the worst possible time.

Some on the Right may admire Putin – but Tory members are not among them, our survey suggests

We wanted to discover if a substantial underbelly of Tory member opinion believes that Russia isn’t a threat to our security. There isn’t one.

It’s time the pollsters stopped prompting UKIP as a major party

The former ‘People’s Army’ is struggling to survive, and even what’s left of its poll support could be an overstatement.

Iain Dale: Yes, we’re British. We’re also European.

Plus: Johnson’s EU speech. Turnbull’s sex ban. Horror in America. Change in South Africa. And: order your popcorn for this weekend’s UKIP conference.

Daniel Hannan: Johnson – a Tigger among Eeyores – is right to restate the positive, uplifting vision of Brexit

Many voters – Leave and Remain – appreciate his spirit of boldness, and want to move on from past divisions, not reopen them. There are opportunities to be grasped.

UKIP loses Towler, the man who made Farage famous

The lights really are going out all over what’s left of the ‘People’s Army’ – the departure of their communications director leaves them without a single national press officer.