Paul Nuttall has just confirmed he will be standing in the upcoming election. The Ukip leader promised to be ‘leading the party into battle’ on June 8th. Where he stands, we’ll have to wait and see. Nuttall said that he would announce in the next 48 hours which seat he planned to target. In a statement, Nuttall said:
‘As the leader of the party I will be, obviously, leading the party into battle as I have done many times in the past’
Nuttall might now be saying his decision was obvious, but it hasn’t always looked that way. Earlier this week, when journalists tried to pin him down on the question of whether he would be running for Parliament, he locked himself in a room, emerging only to say that Ukip leaders who had come before him ‘have done quite well not being in Parliament’.
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