The woman who attacked Nigel Farage has been charged with assault.
Nigel Farage, who announced his candidacy for the UK election earlier this week, was splashed with banana milkshake during a campaign stop. The attack took place outside a pub in Clacton-on-Sea on Tuesday, and a woman was arrested and charged with assault, O BBC reported. Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, is due to appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, July 2, the outlet said, citing Essex Police. A 44-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker has been released and will not face any further action.
Farage, the UK’s reformist leader, was splashed with the yellow liquid in a McDonald’s cup as he was about to board a campaign bus.
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The 60-year-old man had already addressed a group of people, after announcing that he would stand for election in the constituency.
He later joked about the incident saying in a post on X “my milkshake brings everyone to the rally.” It was a reference to Kelis’s 2003 song Milkshake, which has lyrics that include similar words.
Richard Tice, Farage’s predecessor as the UK’s reform leader, said: “The juvenile idiot who threw a drink at Nigel has just won us hundreds of thousands of more votes.”
Home Secretary James Cleverly condemned the attack.
“There is no excuse for resorting to behavior like this. We may disagree, but we debate and then we vote,” he said.
This is not the first time Farage has faced a milkshake attack. In 2019, he was given a banana and salted caramel milkshake while campaigning in Newcastle.
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