UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has been criticised for disclosing details of talks with a Hillsborough support group.
Nuttall continues to face scrutiny after admitting that published claims he had lost ‘close personal friends’ in the 1989 disaster were actually false.
The Bootle-born politician’s official website carried the statement, which he was forced to deny during a radio appearance in Liverpool back in February.
In an interview with ITV News, Nuttall revealed that he has met with the families of those who were killed at Hillsborough following the fall-out of the admission.
But that claim has been disputed by the Hillsborough Family Support Group’s chair Margaret Aspinall, who insists he only met with the group’s committee.
She said: “He hasn’t met the families, what he has met was the committee of the HFSG and that was supposed to be strictly confidential so I don’t know why he’s come out with that.
“He did request to have a meeting with me and I refused to have one unless all the committee was there because there was no way I was going to speak to him on my own.
“The committee agreed, OK, we’ll meet him and listen to what he’s got to say.
“We listened to what he had to say and that was it, and we did say to him this is strictly confidential and he accepted that.
“I’m not going to tell you anything that went on because it was supposed to be strictly confidential.”