LONDON – A man has been charged with using threatening behavior after Nigel Farage had objects thrown at him on the U.K. election campaign trail.
Josh Greally, 28, has been charged with using “threatening, abusive, insulting words and behavior with intent to cause fear or provoke unlawful violence following an incident in Barnsley Town Centre yesterday,” according to a statement from South Yorkshire Police.
It comes after the leading Brexiteer, who now heads up the right-wing challenger Reform UK party and is running to be the member of parliament for Clacton, had objects thrown towards him as he campaigned from an open-top bus in Barnsley, South Yorkshire on Tuesday.
Video footage posted on Farage’s X account shows a man in a red hoodie reaching into a bucket near construction works for an object, which is thrown at the bus but misses Farage. Workmen appear to haul the man from the site before he is tackled by police.
Farage said after the incident: “I will not be bullied or cowed by a violent left-wing mob who hate our country.”
It’s the second such incident involving Farage as the U.K. gears up for a July 4 election in which his party is threatening to eat into the vote of the governing Conservatives.
A woman was charged with assault last week after a milkshake was thrown over Farage in Clacton.
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