Paul Andrew Nuttall (born 30 November 1976) 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, criticizing the party's association with far-right activist Tommy Robinson, 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 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.
A prominent eurosceptic, Nuttall has also called for the establishment of an English parliament.
He favours a ban on wearing burqas in public places, has shown support for the reintroduction of the death penalty, and opposed Labour's 2015 plans to include LGBT-inclusive sex and relationship education in schools.
He is an outspoken climate change denier.Nuttall stood unsuccessfully for UKIP six times in parliamentary elections from 2005 until 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.