The Conservative Party as a political force is already dead, Nigel Farage has claimed as he insisted he would deliver a better opposition to Labour than the Tories after the general election.
On Monday, police detained Mehmet Siddik Akis, mayor of the southeastern Hakkari province bordering Iran and Iraq, just two months after he won power in local elections. Turkey's Interior Ministry said Akis played a high-level role within the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militia, while replacing him with the state governor.
Darren Rodwell had been selected to fight the Labour safe seat of Barking