mo4ch:>Another ex-UKIP leader jumps ship over Tommy Robinson appointment – report | Mo4ch News

UKIP MEP and former leader, Paul Nuttall, is the latest high profile figure after Nigel Farage to quit the party over the appointment of far-right activist Tommy Robinson in an advisory role.Nuttall, who sits in the European Parliament for North West England, said: “The association with Tommy Robinson will simply appall many moderate Brexit voters and inevitably be detrimental to the cause.”“Putting Tommy Robinson front and centre, whilst Brexit is in the process of being betrayed is, in my view, a catastrophic error,” he added.“To conflate Brexit and Robinson at this crucial moment is to put the eurosceptic cause in danger and I cannot and will not be party to that.”READ MORE: Nigel Farage quits UKIP over party’s ties to Tommy RobinsonNuttall led UKIP from November 2016 to June 2017, resigning following the party’s poor general election results. His time in charge was also marred by a false claims, made on Nuttall’s website, that he had lost three close friends in the Hillsborough tr…