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'I never punched him in the face': Mike Hookem

The UKIP MEP Mike Hookem has denied punching fellow MEP Steven Woolfe.

"I never punched him in the face... It was a tussle," he told Newsnight's Secunder Kermani.

Steven Woolfe collapsed at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Thursday, a few hours after an altercation with Mr Hookem and was hospitalised.

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