Brexit Chief Nigel Farage Blitzed By Milkshake On Marketing campaign Path

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Nigel Farage, who efficiently pushed for the UK to go away the European Union in 2016, was assailed with a milkshake Tuesday whereas on his first day of campaigning for Parliament.

Photographers captured the incident in Clacton, a seaside city the place the newly appointed chief of Reform UK, a right-wing populist social gathering, was leaving a pub after giving interviews to the media.

A girl flings her milkshake into Nigel Farage’s face.

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The milkshake was reportedly banana-flavored.
The milkshake was reportedly banana-flavored.

BEN STANSALL through Getty Photographs

The drink slammed Farage right in the face.
The drink slammed Farage proper within the face.

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Politico, which spoke with Farage after the incident, stated 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 instructed the outlet, referencing different U.Okay. social gathering leaders. “You know why, they don’t go out and meet hundreds of people and this is the risk of doing it.”

Essex Police instructed the BBC a 25-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of assault.

Shortly after the incident, Farage ― who’s working on a heavy anti-immigration platform ― jokingly posed with a tray of McDonald’s milkshakes in close by Jaywick.

Farage makes light of the incident.
Farage makes gentle of the incident.

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Tuesday’s milkshake pelter might have been impressed by a person who did the identical to Farage on the marketing campaign path in 2019. That point, it was a banana and salted caramel milkshake from 5 Guys.

“I was quite looking forward to it, but I think it went on a better purpose,” Paul Crowther, the person arrested for the incident, instructed The Guardian on the time.

That is Farage’s eighth time working to be a member of Parliament. None of his makes an attempt have been profitable. He introduced his eighth marketing campaign Monday after initially saying he wouldn’t be working.

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