A political candidate for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) has been injured in a plane crash. Nigel Farage, the former leader of the party, was in a two-seater plane when it crashed at an airfield in Northamptonshire.  The plane crashed just one hour after voting had opened on polling day.
Farage, 46, was taken to a Banbury hospital with non-life threatening injuries.  The pilot of the plane is believed to have suffered more severe injuries and was transferred to a different hospital. 
The plane had landed at the airfield in Hinton-in-the-Hedges and was beginning to take off again when the accident happened. The plane was being flown with a UKIP banner and was due to fly over Buckinghamshire, the constituency where Farage is standing. 
A UKIP spokesman said about that incident that "We've had unconfirmed reports that either the banner got snagged up, or there were cross-winds and it was unfamiliar airfield to the pilot."  He added that after a discussion with an aviation expert that the banner could not be a factor in the accident.
Chris Adams, a fellow UKIP candidate for the constituency of Aylesbury, released a statement on the condition of Farage.  He said "Nigel was unconscious but he can talk.  He's been coming in and out of consciousness and is now being X-rayed." 
The fire and ambulance services have remained at the scene of the crash and an investigation has been opened. 

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British political candidate Nigel Farage injured in plane crash on polling day