[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by arista

MTVN
be more fair , he was
on the "Liverpool Radio Video"
said he was not aware of it. And said sorry.
That is the End of it.
The Labour Party are rushing to find anything on him
because of the local election next week.

All Out Politics (mon - fri) 10AM Adam Boulton
SkyNewsHD - worth recording
getting more viewers this week
as DP on BBC2HD are on Holiday with the Lazy MP's

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

It was his PR embellishing (its her job) and probably not understanding the gravity of the distinction. She offered her resignation. End of story

So he was also not aware of a BBC article quoting him saying the same a year earlier back in 2011?

Paul Nuttall’s press officer offered her resignation over the “close personal friends” claim she is said to have written on his website in 2012. Yet that was not the only time Nuttall’s name was associated with those words. In August 2011 the BBC quoted him making the same claim – apparently taken from his press release:



So twice Nuttall’s team wrote statements claiming he had “close personal friends” at Hillsborough, and one of them was published by the BBC. And Nuttall says he knew nothing about it…

https://order-order.com/2017/02/15/n...aim-2011-well/