Paul Nuttall

Paul Nuttall
Nuttall in 2014
Leader of the UK Independence Party
In office 28 November 2016 – 9 June 2017
Deputy	Peter Whittle
Preceded by	Diane James
Succeeded by	Henry Bolton
Leader of the UK Independence Party in the European Parliament
In office November 2015 – 3 January 2017
Preceded by	Roger Helmer
Succeeded by	Ray Finch
UKIP Spokesperson for Education, Life Skills and Training
In office 24 July 2014 – 17 September 2016
Leader	Nigel Farage
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	David Kurten
Deputy Leader of the UK Independence Party
In office 8 November 2010 – 16 September 2016
Leader	Nigel Farage
Preceded by	David Campbell Bannerman & The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Succeeded by	Peter Whittle
Chair of the UK Independence Party
In office 8 September 2008 – 8 November 2010
Leader	Nigel Farage The Lord Pearson of Rannoch Jeffrey Titford (Acting)
Preceded by	John Whittaker
Succeeded by	Steve Crowther
Member of the European Parliament for North West England
In office 14 July 2009 – 1 July 2019[1][2]
Preceded by	John Whittaker
Succeeded by	Claire Fox
Personal details
Born	Paul Andrew Nuttall (1976-11-30) 30 November 1976 (age 47) Bootle, England
Political party	Brexit Party (2019–)
Other political affiliations	None/Independent (2018) UK Independence Party (2004–2018) Conservative (Before 2004)
Alma mater	North Lincolnshire College Edge Hill University Liverpool Hope University University of Central Lancashire
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Website	Official website

Paul Andrew Nuttall (born 30 November 1976) is a British politician who served as Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2016 to 2017. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate, and served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England between 2009 and 2019, sitting in the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group. He left UKIP in December 2018, criticising the party's association with far-right activist Tommy Robinson,^[3] and joined the Brexit Party in 2019.

Nuttall was a Conservative Party candidate in a council election in Sefton before joining UKIP in 2004. He 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. He was elected party leader in the November 2016 leadership election. 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. He 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.

A prominent Eurosceptic, Nuttall has also called for the establishment of an English parliament.^[4] He favours a ban on wearing burqas in public places,^[5][6] has shown support for the reintroduction of the death penalty,^[7][8] and opposed Labour's 2015 plans to include LGBT-inclusive sex and relationship education in schools.^[9]