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Every day seems to bring a new low point for Paul Nuttall.

It’s got so bad that even key supporters within UKIP have had enough and are walking out.

By-elections are tough campaigns - I know because I was elected in one in 2011.

Candidates are thrust into the spotlight. Under that intense pressure, voters get to see your real character.

There is nowhere to hide.

As an ex-Tory , Paul Nuttall has the wrong values for Stoke-on-Trent. He has proven to be unfit for public office.

His own colleagues say he is “unprofessional.”

While he talks a big game, he has been exposed time and again for falsehoods.

He set out to be the Donald Trump of British politics. But he turned out to be Pinocchio Paul.

Tomorrow I will be in Stoke-on-Trent to listen to local people ahead of Thursday’s by-election.

They deserve an MP who’ll stand up for the town. Not someone who will use Stoke-on-Trent as a political soap box to stand on.

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That is why I will be campaigning for the Labour Party candidate Gareth Snell. He will never be afraid to speak out on behalf of local people.

In days gone by, many people in Stoke-on-Trent were employed in the ceramics industry making beautiful things. Most of those jobs have now gone.

Today Bet365 is the areas largest private sector employer. That is a tough transition. People therefore need a local voice to champion their interests because successive governments have left them behind.

This has been a tough decade for many families in Stoke-on-Trent and right across Britain. People rightly feel their concerns have not been heard by the government in Westminster.

That frustration found an outlet when a majority voted for Brexit last year.

Too many people feel that politicians simply cannot deliver the change that we need.

But people in Stoke-on-Trent won’t be fooled on Thursday.

They have an opportunity to rid our politics of a force which turns our communities on themselves.

Paul Nuttall’s days are numbered. He and UKIP deserve nothing less.