Paul Nuttall

Paul Andrew Nuttall (born 30 November 1976) is a British politician who was leader of the UK Independence Party from November 2016 to June 2017.

Quotes

• I have no interest sitting all day in Brussels committees enacting job-killing, democracy-destroying legislation inspired by the EU.
  • Useless, toothless... we should pull out Oldham Chronicle (1 February 2013)

• Tuesday is Emmeline Pankhurst Day, and whilst I am not going to throw myself in front of a horse to make my point about British democracy on this occasion, this is a vitally important constitutional matter and perhaps we should throw Sturgeon in front of a hunt horse as part of the commemorations.
  On this occasion you may feel that the end justifies the means, that if you are against fox hunting it doesn’t matter how the ban gets kept, as long as it does.
• If we allow this to go unchecked, if we allow the Scottish MPs to be the decision makers on this issue, what happens when they take a stance you disagree with? What happens if they disagree with you on Trident, on immigration, on our membership of the EU?
  • From a Huffington Post blog entry (originally published in July 2015, but updated a year later), cited in "New UKIP leader called for Sturgeon 'to be thrown in front of horse'" The Scotsman (28 November 2016).
  • It was the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison who died after being hit by the King's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby

External links

• Official site