Ukip backer stands by Hillsborough comments

Ukip backer Arron Banks has repeated that he is “sick to death” of hearing about the Hillsborough disaster.

Party leader Paul Nuttall, who is hoping to oust Labour in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election today, sparked outrage after it emerged claims that he lost close personal friends at Hillsborough were false.

Speaking to Emma Barnett on BBC 5 live Mr Banks said: “.“We can’t keep going on about things forever, can we?

“Hillsborough obviously was a disaster, it was wrong it was covered up . . . but the Labour party want to politicise it and I find that deeply distasteful.”

Ukip leader Paul Nuttall is standing in the Stoke by-election.