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Henry Riley is here with the details
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It's quite a comeback this, James. In order to sort of help reform UK's fortunes
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they've enlisted the help of Paul Nuttall, who, just to remind you, was the erstwhile leader of UKIP
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He was there for six months. He was an MEP for ten years
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He fought ten seats at Parliament level. He didn't win any of those
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But he has now got a new role as the vice-chairman of Reform UK
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So former leader of UKIP, We're told that his role will not be front-facing
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and that he will be doing a lot of the internal stuff. Now, which is a bit of a shame, actually, because you're right
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He contributed enormously to the gaiety of the nation. He had a lot of headlines. And you may recall, when it comes to being slightly economical with the truth..
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Well, let's dig into that a little bit. Farrah's this morning accusing Rachel Reeves of being a liar
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I don't know if my memory is letting me down here, but didn't Paul Nuttall get into a little bit of bother in that kind of territory
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He did. There's quite a few to go through. Starting at the sort of lower level, he claimed to be on the board for North West Training Council
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saying that he'd accepted an invitation to join the board. They then said he's never been a board member and he's never been invited to join a board member of the North West Training Council
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He ran in a by-election in Stoke-on-Trent and it turned out that the address that he was listed at living
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Michael Crick, the journalist, went to visit and he had never lived there
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although UKIP say that because of security reasons Oh there another Nigel Farage lie Do you remember when he said he couldn hold constituency surgeries in Clacton because the Speaker office had told him that he wouldn be safe and that was a lie as well
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We did hear from the Speaker's office, you're right, didn't we, after that. Can't keep up with all the lies from the liar
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The other sort of three points to this were there were claims
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that he was a footballer with Tranmere Rovers. You're making this up
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This was his exchange with Andrew Marr. Do you have a PhD from Liverpool Hope University
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No, and I've never claimed I've got a PhD. It's on your website? It's not on my website. It's on a LinkedIn page that wasn't put up by us
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and we don't know where it's come from, OK? So I've never claimed that at all. And did you ever play professional football for Tranmere Rovers
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I played for five years for Tranmere Rovers as a schoolboy and a youth team player
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I've never claimed that I've been a professional. It was one press release in 2010 put up by a press officer who knows nothing about football
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You have a very over-enthusiastic researcher. Do you still have that enthusiastic researcher
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Well, I don't know where that comment has come from. That was to do with the Daily Mail story today
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which said that I had a PhD from Liverpool. Hope, I've never clicked... And in fact, actually, if you listen to interviews..
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It's nothing to do with me. And if you listen to interviews I've given over the past five years, I've always spoke about wanting to finish my PhD
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which I started in 2004. It's a curious one, because there was a LinkedIn page that claimed to be from a Paul Nuttall
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who said that they did have a PhD from that particular university. But as you hear then, he denies it
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The Tranmere Rovers one was... Who here hasn't had a fake LinkedIn page put up about them
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with claims of academic achievements that were simply not true I mean it a well hazard It a well Fall into it don you It not as if his boss has been calling other people a liar today
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Tranmere Rovers was the other one, which, I mean, he said it was a press release. It was sort of from Paul Nuttall, it wasn't from UKIP
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Paul Nuttall saying, when I was a professional footballer at Tranmere Rovers. Now, these are quite jovial to an extent
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but one particular story about Paul Nuttall, which did really cause some offence among people
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was with regards to Hillsborough. Now, he was, this was the 1989 disaster
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he was there at the day, but crucially, his website had said
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that he lost close personal friends. Now, this was his exchange with Radio City Talk in Liverpool
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It affects me every day, and in fact, I didn't lose anybody that day. You say you lost a close personal friend
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It's on your website. I haven't lost a close personal friend. I've lost someone who I know
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January 9, 2012 on your own site lost close personal friends it's on your website
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that's not from me, I'm sorry it's on your own website Paul well that is absolutely
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I'm sorry I haven't lost anyone who was a close personal friend
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people who I knew through football and things like that I basically went to your website
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last night, search for Hillsborough, and it paulnuttlemep Yeah It your website Well I sorry about that but you know that is something which I i have into your own yeah well i haven put that out in my you know that is that is wrong do you see where this goes with you being a politician and people will find these things
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i lost close personal friends at that match and understand as well as anyone how deep the scars
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of that tragedy go i am delighted that she has acquired sufficient signatures on her petition
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and it goes to show how seriously this issue must be taken was that was the full quote that was being
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referred to there. And not from a spokesperson, from directly Paul Nuttall. And just
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lastly on that, James, that particular incident was in the press a lot because he was running
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for a by-election. Aaron Banks, who is now back with reform, he's the
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advisor on Doge, he was previously with UKIP. He said at the time that he was
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quote, sick to death of hearing about the Hillsborough disaster and it led
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to various UKIP officials in Merseyside resigning as a result. Sick to death of hearing about the
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Hillsborough? That was the quote that Aaron Banks said at the time
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God, even my memory is not big enough to hold in all of the horror shows that these people commit
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Speaking of which, what did Mr Farage have to say earlier about the new arrival in his
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party who was, because the newspaper's reporting this morning, as you reminded us yesterday
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she lost the Conservative wit for using the N-word. I know he's very keen to stress that they don't let racists into the party, so how did
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he explain that one? Well, he's previously said that he wouldn't let any old Conservative MP in
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as you say it's sort of heavily in the press Anne-Marie Morris who's leading up the social care policy
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it wasn't discussed today but I'm sure another time he'll be asked about it
