Paul Nuttall doesn’t want to be a hangman after all. There was some doubt over the weekend when the Ukip leader said he’d bring back the death penalty and would even pull the lever himself.
This left Andrew Neil somewhat curious and so he used his election interview to enquire if Nuttall had been signalling a career move. But it turns out he wasn’t. He’d be up for stringing up nonces to make a point but wasn’t seeking new opportunities in that sector. ‘I don’t want to be Albert Pierrepoint,’ he told Neil. ‘That’s not what I want to go into after politics.’
The leader interviews have been revealing, showing up Theresa May’s deer-like terror at being asked about detail and Jeremy Corbyn’s facility for on-the-spot revisionism of every view he has ever espoused. This one didn’t reveal so much as confirm — Paul Nuttall is no Nigel Farage.
Even in my rootless, globalist heart, I feel sorry for the nativist right.
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