UKIP press officer offers to resign over false Hillsborough claim

UKIP press officer Lynda Roughley has offered to resign after accepting responsibility for publishing the claim, since debunked, that ‘close personal friends’ of party leader Paul Nuttall had died in the Hillsborough tragedy.
Nuttall has since taken flak from families of the 96 Liverpool fans who were killed in the 1989 stadium disaster who have expressed disgust at the perceived attempt to seek political capital from personal tragedies.
Margaret Aspinall, who lost a son (James) at H