Paul Nuttall MEP

Once a month we Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) get dragged to the Alsatian city of Strasbourg, which acts as home to the European Union’s (EU) second parliament (the first in Brussels). The trip is costly, time consuming, and many

On the night of the Oldham West and Royton by-election result I accused the Labour Party of engaging in “dangerous identity politics.” The result of me uttering this sentence on TV was that the political journalists both local and national

Much has been talked about this week about the idea of England having its own national anthem. It’s been suggested that God Save The Queen, the British national anthem, be dropped for England sporting events and replaced with songs such

No one could fail to be both appalled and astonished by the events in Cologne on New Year’s Eve. Around one thousand male migrants – invited into Germany by deluded Chancellor Angela Merkel trying to play St Peter – set themselves

Heavyweight World Champion Tyson Fury was pilloried last week for some of his views about homosexuality and women – his nomination for BBC Sports Personality of the Year being called into question. For those who have missed the furore –

Politics can be a rough old game. The highs are high and the low can be very low. We’ve had some fantastic highs in UKIP over the past three years, such as the local elections in 2013, winning the European

So Brussels is on lockdown due to the heightened terror threat. Trains have been cancelled, people have been told to stay away from crowded areas, meaning that the centre is deserted and sporting events have been postponed. It’s no surprise

New York Times columnist Roger Cohen has waded into the UK’s ‘Brexit’ debate. He opened his article, published yesterday, by incorrectly and provocatively describing those of us who are critical of the UK’s position in the European Union (EU) as “little

The wise words of the international relations guru Benedict Cumberbatch have sent me on a road to Damascus, if you will pardon the pun.  I think I may have been too rash in suggesting that we protect our borders and

This week I stood up in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and spoke about an ‘inconvenient truth’. It was a speech that most in the chamber simply did not want to hear. To howls of derision, I told the European

Perhaps one of the most significant changes to the UK criminal justice system in the twentieth century was the suspension of capital punishment in 1965 in Great Britain. This was followed by its permanent abolition in 1969. The British public

This week, Prime Minister David Cameron issued his much-anticipated climb-down by announcing that the UK will now be taking in as many as 20,000 refugees from Syria following weeks where our news broadcasts have predominantly followed the journey of migrants

Britain is being left increasingly open to attack as a result of successive government’s failure’s to invest in the military. In the meantime foreign aid is perversely being doled out to countries that stand accused of funding terrorism. This weeks

This week, the Chairman of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem arrogantly stated: “You are mistaken if you think that democracy is where one election result can change the way we work in the Eurozone”. The President of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude

This week, the Commons Education Select Committee recommended that sex and relationship education (SRE) should be taught in all primary schools, a suggestion following an Ofsted report which found that more than a third of schools were failing to provide

It was reported in a recent Sunday Times article that an EU referendum could be held as early as May next year. As a Eurosceptic, my political career has been entirely devoted to advocating such a referendum. I believe that

Greece’s finance minister Yanis Varoufakis went into his meeting today with Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, urging Germany not to humiliate his country over its debts. To which I’d say, “Too late, Mr Varoufakis. You have already humiliated your

Of Course the King who passed away last week was none other than King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia who has now been succeeded by his half brother and 79 year old fountain of youth Salman. As you may know, Saudi

On Thursday I was on BBC Question Time and whilst hot topics such as the delayed Chilcot Enquiry and the future of the NHS were featured, my twitter feed suggested that it was my comments regarding greater powers for the

Be in no doubt that 2014 was the year UKIP came of age. It was the year the party has been working towards for a long time. The year when we became the first political party since 1910 to win

I want to talk to you about stereotypes. Stereotypes can be funny, sometimes they can be offensive – some are based on an element of truth and some are gross misrepresentations. As a Scouser, I know all about stereotypes –

This week, Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated his pledge to support the accession of Turkey, a comparatively poor country of over 80 million people, into the European Union. This is despite the fact that many in the UK, as well

This week in Westminster, MPs voted in favour of an amendment that could see the end of the controversial, centuries old pub-tie that forces landlords into only buying beer at above the market rate from the parent brewery. As a

I suppose the art of political spin is attempting to make a failure look like a success, or, indeed, a defeat look like a victory. That’s what the old tired establishment parties do after they’ve been defeated in a by

I have been banging the drum for a long time now about how successive governments have let down the leisure and hospitality industry by refusing to ‘think outside the box.’ By ‘thinking outside the box’, I am referring primarily to

So the Labour Party has walked out of the cross party talks on constitutional reform this week, but I don’t think it really came as shock to anyone. They are in a spin about how to deal with the new

Over the last week, I watched in disgust as the Rotherham sex scandal hit the headlines and the full horror of the abuse of 1400 girls in the town was brought to light. As far back as 2012, I was

It is accepted that primary schools have increasing numbers of pupils, which causes all manner of problems, but what is frequently not referred to is why we have such a boom in numbers. And the answer is unlimited immigration into