Good morning. “What does a knighthood cost these days?” asks the Mirror‘s splash this morning. They’re talking about Philip Green, and his decision to stump up £363m to fill some of the hole in BHS’ pension pot in a bid to save his knighthood, but they could equally be talking about the ongoing war within Ukip.
Douglas Carswell, the party’s sole MP, is under fire from Nigel Farage and his allies for thwarting Farage’s hopes of a knighthood. Former Ukip spinner Alexandra Phillips tells Anoosh that the “wounds will never heal”, while over at the HuffPo, Owen Bennett reveals that the allegation, made by Farage in the Telegraph, is to be investigated by Ukip’s chair Paul Oakden, with that party’s NEC poised to expel the Clacton MP.
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