A milkshake is thrown in the face of populist Nigel Farage at his first campaign event in the United Kingdom

Nigel Farage leader of the British anti-immigration party Reform UK, suffered an incident this Tuesday when, at the end of his first campaign event as a candidate for elections in the United Kingdom, a young woman He threw a milkshake in his face and on his suit. in the English city of Clacton.

Farage was leaving the interior of a pub after speaking with several journalists about his decision, announced this Monday, to take the reins of the Reform party and run in the July 4 elections.

When he left the premises, a group of journalists, curious and also detractors, was waiting for him. At that moment, a young woman approached him and threw the contents of a glass in his face: a banana smoothie. This young woman, 25 years old, has been arrested, as reported by the Essex County Police.

He was already attacked in 2019

Farage, who has been the target of incidents of this type in the past, promised today to a group of supporters that he will be “a damn nuisance” in Parliament if he is elected deputy for that constituency.

In 2019, the leader Trumpist and promoter of Brexit He experienced a similar moment when a man also threw a milkshake at him in Newcastle (England), an act for which its perpetrator, Paul Crowther, had to compensate him for assault and damage against a tie microphone that the politician was wearing attached to his suit.

‘Tories’ and Laborites condemn it

The event has sparked criticism from across the British political spectrum, and even from the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, has spoken about it. “The attack on Nigel Farage It is unacceptable, as it would be for any candidate,” he said.

“There is no excuse to resort to behavior like this. We can disagree, but we debate and then we vote. That is democracy,” Cleverly stated in his X profile.

The Labor head of Home Affairs, Yvette Cooper, has regretted the “shameful”, “completely unacceptable and wrong” attack on Farage. “No one should suffer intimidation or aggression in an electoral campaign,” she stressed.

For his part, the president of the Reform party, Richard Tice, hHe has assured that his training “will not be intimidated or threatened”, and has charged against the “young idiot” who has thrown the shake at Farage. “It has made us win hundreds of thousands of votes,” he said.