A man has been arrested after threatening online to “shoot” Nigel Farage.
The man reportedly posted:
I am going to shoot you in the head if you win.
Farage announced that the London Metropolitan Police informed him of the May 8th, 2026 arrest on Wednesday, July 15th. The Reform UK leader told the Telegraph:
This is the first time the police have ever proactively acted on a social media post and I hope they are looking at the other three or four hundred similar posts from this year alone.
This has been going on for years, not just words but videos of people firing guns and so on, and in the past we have put multiple reports in to the police, always to be told that these social media posts don’t meet the threshold, which is extraordinary.
And it goes deeper than that. It’s about the comedian Jo Brand joking about throwing battery acid in my face, it’s about Noel Fielding telling people to stab me, and if the police now decide to act to protect the lives of serving and ex-politicians, then at least something good will have come out of Ann’s horrific death.
“Ann,” of course, refers to Ann Widdecombe—former Conservative minister, Brexit Party MP, and published novelist—who fell victim last week to a suspected murder. The death of Widdecombe has heightened the debate in Britain over the security of its public figures, with Farage’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf claiming his boss received 1,577 threats since February this year, including 597 death threats.
To date, the most high-profile conviction of someone threatening to harm Farage on social media came from Afghan influencer madapasa/Mada Pasa (Fayaz Khan), a tattoo-faced thug whose credible threats in 2025 earned him a five-year stretch in a British prison.
