Paul Nuttall

Paul Andrew Nuttall is a British politician. He served as 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 was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate. He was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from November 2016 to June 2017. He left UKIP in December 2018, criticising the party's association with far-right activist Tommy Robinson, and joined The Brexit Party in 2019.