56 Facts About Paul Nuttall

Paul Andrew Nuttall was born on 30 November 1976 and is a British politician who served as Leader of the UK Independence Party from 2016 to 2017.

Paul Nuttall was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 as a UK Independence Party candidate, and served as a Member of the European Parliament for North West England between 2009 and 2019, sitting in the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group.

Paul Nuttall left UKIP in December 2018, criticising the party's association with far-right activist Tommy Robinson, and joined The Brexit Party in 2019.

Paul Nuttall became deputy leader of UKIP, deputising for Nigel Farage, in November 2010 and the party's spokesperson for education, life skills and training in July 2014.

Paul Nuttall was elected party leader in the November 2016 leadership election.

Paul Nuttall stood unsuccessfully for UKIP six times in parliamentary elections between 2005 and 2017, of which his best result was finishing second in the 2017 Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election.

Paul Nuttall resigned as party leader after coming third in Boston and Skegness in the 2017 general election, with his party losing most of its electoral support.

Paul Nuttall was raised Catholic and currently practises that faith.

Paul Nuttall completed his A-Levels at Hugh Baird College in Bootle.

Paul Nuttall was previously married and has a child from that marriage.

Paul Nuttall completed a Higher National Diploma in sports science at North Lincolnshire College.

Paul Nuttall studied history at Edge Hill College, graduating with a BA, and at Liverpool Hope University where he specialised in Edwardian politics and graduated with an MA.

When Renton discussed the quotations with him, Paul Nuttall told Renton that "he was not responsible for the citations: his girlfriend had found them on the internet".

Paul Nuttall received a Certificate in Education from the University of Central Lancashire.

Paul Nuttall lectured at Liverpool Hope University between 2004 and 2006.

Paul Nuttall founded its South Sefton branch in 2005 in order to contest elections in north Merseyside.

At the 2008 local elections, Paul Nuttall again stood as a candidate for Derby Ward on Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council, but this time as a UKIP candidate.

In 2008, Paul Nuttall became the founding secretary of Young Independence, the youth wing of UKIP for under 35-year-olds.

Paul Nuttall held this position until UKIP's spring conference in 2009 when Young Independence held its first internal elections.

Paul Nuttall was appointed as chairman of UKIP in September 2008.

Paul Nuttall became a member of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group in the European Parliament, as well as a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education.

Paul Nuttall opened an office for his European Parliament work in Bootle in March 2010.

On 8 November 2010, Paul Nuttall was confirmed by UKIP's NEC as Nigel Farage's choice for deputy leader.

Paul Nuttall was selected as UKIP's candidate in the 2011 by-election held in the constituency to replace Woolas.

However, in November 2012, Paul Nuttall said there would be "no deals with the Tories while David Cameron is leader", blaming Cameron's previous claims about the party, including that it was one of "closet racists".

In February 2013, Paul Nuttall visited Bulgaria at the invitation of independent MEP Slavcho Binev.

Paul Nuttall visited the largest Romani quarter of Sofia, Bulgaria's capital, and later commented that such slums should not exist in Europe and that minorities should be integrated.

Paul Nuttall took part in a joint press conference with Binev, during which nationalist politician Volen Siderov interrupted proceedings to accuse UKIP of racism.

Paul Nuttall predicted that the UK "will probably be out of the EU by 2020" in April 2013.

In 2014, Paul Nuttall was returned to the European Parliament at the European election and is currently one of two UKIP MEPs representing the constituency of North West England.

In March 2017, it was reported that Paul Nuttall had claimed excess European funding for his office in his constituency which he shared with Louise Bours.

Paul Nuttall announced in July 2016 that he would not stand in the September 2016 UKIP leadership election following the resignation of Nigel Farage and that he would step down as deputy leader of the party.

In October 2016, Paul Nuttall announced that he would run in the second UKIP leadership election of 2016, triggered when Diane James, leader for 18 days after the first 2016 leadership election, announced she was to stand down.

Paul Nuttall stood as a UKIP candidate for the 2017 Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election.

Paul Nuttall's campaign was compromised by his various questionable claims: that he was present and "lost close personal friends" at the Hillsborough disaster, that he had a PhD, had been on the board of directors at a vocational training charity, and had been a footballer for Tranmere Rovers, all of which emerged to be untrue.

Paul Nuttall has been investigated for possibly fraudulent claims that he was living in a house in Stoke-on-Trent, which was discovered to be empty and still advertised to rent, when he filed his nomination papers.

Paul Nuttall stood in the 2017 general election, in the constituency of Boston and Skegness, but failed to win the seat.

Paul Nuttall resigned as leader the day after the election.

Paul Nuttall vowed in 2016 to "replace the Labour Party in the next five years and become the patriotic party of the working people".

Paul Nuttall called for the establishment of an English parliament and presented UKIP's new devolution policy at its annual conference at Eastbourne in September 2011.

Paul Nuttall suggested in October 2016 that the current time limit on abortion be cut down from 24 weeks to 12 weeks.

Paul Nuttall is a member of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, the United Kingdom's largest anti-abortion organisation.

Paul Nuttall has accused the EU's migration laws as allowing for the "free movement of jihad".

Paul Nuttall has supported the reintroduction of capital punishment for child murderers, serial killers, and those who kill police officers.

Paul Nuttall has signed an e-petition to this effect and has stressed that it is UKIP's policy to put controversial policies such as capital punishment to a referendum before undertaking them.

Paul Nuttall promised to hold inter-party talks with Prime Minister Theresa May on the issue, saying that, if peerages were given in proportion to vote count in the 2015 general election, UKIP should have 26 lords.

Phillip Blond said that mocking Paul Nuttall's language in this manner was an example of "laughing at working-class misuse of language", adding that "correcting people's speech is redolent with class [and] division"; however, others such as Oliver Kamm disagreed.

Paul Nuttall posted on his website in June 2014 that "the very existence of the NHS stifles competition", and stated that "as long as the NHS is the 'sacred cow' of British politics, the longer the British people will suffer with a second-rate health service".

On foreign policy, Paul Nuttall said that he was "not a fan" of Putin's "reprehensible" persecution of Russian journalists.

Paul Nuttall has said Britain "got it wrong" in "helping the so-called rebels" in the Syrian civil war.

Paul Nuttall drew criticism for a tweet he made in the context of the Scottish National Party wishing to vote on foxhunting legislation which affected only England and Wales.

Paul Nuttall spoke of his experience at the 1989 Hillsborough disaster on BBC Television's Question Time in 2015.

Paul Nuttall said the claims were true and presented a letter of support from his father, adding in a newspaper interview that he did not like to talk about the disaster.

Paul Nuttall has been accused of fabricating parts of his career history.

In 2009, Paul Nuttall's website claimed he was joining the board of the North West Training Council, a vocational training charity, but in 2017 the organisation's CEO said that Paul Nuttall had never been invited and that his name appeared in none of their documentation.

Paul Nuttall has contested several UK and European Parliamentary elections as a UKIP candidate:.