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Former Ukip chief Henry Bolton starts a new job... as private investigator, EDEN CONFIDENTIAL reveals

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Henry Bolton says he's helping companies which 'know that they've got a problem' - perhaps when stock is going missing - 'but don't have the expertise to investigate.'

For I can disclose the remarkable, improbable CV of Henry Bolton — said by interviewer Niall Paterson to be 'the most interesting of any politician I've ever met' — has taken a diverting turn, six years after he stood down as Ukip leader following developments in his sometimes tumultuous personal life. It's not a private eye [role] nor bodyguarding,' says Bolton, whose military experience began in the Royal Hussars before he joined the Territorial Army, by which time he'd also been an officer in Thames Valley Police and earned an award for bravery. I ask because Gardiner, 81, a chum of King Charles, has extended his leave of absence from the choir, nine months since standing down as its conductor after allegedly thumping bass soloist William Thomas at a performance of Berlioz's Les Troyens.

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