Brexit Leader Nigel Farage Blitzed By Milkshake On Campaign Trail
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“It was quite violently done," the parliamentary candidate said.
Nigel Farage, who successfully pushed for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union in 2016, was assailed with a milkshake Tuesday while on his first day of campaigning for Parliament.
Photographers captured the incident in Clacton, a seaside town where the newly appointed leader of Reform UK, a right-wing populist party, was leaving a pub after giving interviews to the media.
Politico, which spoke with Farage after the incident, said the drink was a “banana-flavored milkshake from McDonald’s” that “soaked his hair, face and parts of his clothes.”
“It was quite violently done. This doesn’t happen to Keir Starmer, this doesn’t happen to Rishi Sunak,” he told the outlet, referencing other U.K. party leaders. “You know why, they don’t go out and meet hundreds of people and this is the risk of doing it.”
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