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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 ofPhotographers 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.The milkshake was reportedly banana-flavored.
, 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.
“I was quite looking forward to it, but I think it went on a better purpose,” Paul Crowther, the man arrested for the incident,This is Farage’s eighth time running to be a member of Parliament. None of his attempts have been successful. He announced his eighth campaign Monday after initially saying he wouldn’t be running.
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