During the conference, Farage was in agreement that the initial intention of the Online Safety Act was “honourable” and “correct”, but argued that 13-year-olds would find a way around the new legislation, the Express reports. Hitting out at Kyle, Farage stated: “I suspect that most 13-year-olds are more tech savvy than the Science Minister Peter Kyle because they simply go to VPNs.
“When they can just access what’s on the web, they can quite easily find themselves in the even deeper and darker recesses of the dark web.” In another brutal dig at the Labour government, the politician added: “Do we want legislation that protects children? Yes. We’re going to have to find a tech solution to it. The government is not there.”
The government’s Online Safety Act will “require platforms to remove illegal content, including content which encourages people to self-harm or take their own lives”.
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Farage’s statement comes after Reform UK announced it would scrap the online safety legislation if the party won the next election.
The politician’s remarks led Peter Kyle, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology to allege he was “on the side of turning the clock back to when strange adults can get in touch via messaging apps with children.”
Peter Kyle -Credit:Sky
Kyle said: “If people like Jimmy Saville were alive today, he would be perpetrating his crimes online. And Nigel Farage is saying that he’s on their side, not the side of the children.”
During an emergency broadcast after the comments were made, Farage dubbed the attack “so absolutely disgusting that it’s almost beyond belief”.
He said: “Just how low can the Labour government sink in its desperation? Yes of course they’re in trouble, they’re well behind us in the opinion polls, but frankly to say that I would do anything that would in any way aid and abet people like Jimmy Savile is frankly so below the belt…”
Farage also demanded an apology from the Labour minister.
He took to X to write: “Peter Kyle’s comments on Sky News are disgusting. He should do the right thing and apologise.
Farage’s supporters took to social media to reply to his tweet as one wrote: “Sky News should apologise for its existence.”
A second echoed: “Says more about him than it does about you lol f he doesn’t apologise.”
A third wrote: “They have just lost more voters from the comments he just made. Absolutely vile.”
However, others fumed that Kyle had nothing to be sorry for.
One hit back: “Peter Kyle is right. At least he holds surgeries in his constituency which is more than you do. Just stop the manufactured outrage.”
Another commented: “He’s got nothing to apologise for.”
Meanwhile, someone else said: “Do you ever apologise Nigel? No.”
Keir Starmer’s Labour government was issued a savage blow by Nigel Farage after he held a press conference this morning. Sky News was halted to show footage of the Reform UK leader speaking at the conference, where he slammed the government’s new Online Safety Act once again.
During the conference, Farage was in agreement that the initial intention of the Online Safety Act was “honourable” and “correct”, but argued that 13-year-olds would find a way around the new legislation, the Express reports. Hitting out at Kyle, Farage stated: “I suspect that most 13-year-olds are more tech savvy than the Science Minister Peter Kyle because they simply go to VPNs.
“When they can just access what’s on the web, they can quite easily find themselves in the even deeper and darker recesses of the dark web.” In another brutal dig at the Labour government, the politician added: “Do we want legislation that protects children? Yes. We’re going to have to find a tech solution to it. The government is not there.”
The government’s Online Safety Act will “require platforms to remove illegal content, including content which encourages people to self-harm or take their own lives”.
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READ MORE: Reform UK MP quits Nigel Farage’s party after taking ‘specialist legal advice’
Farage’s statement comes after Reform UK announced it would scrap the online safety legislation if the party won the next election.
The politician’s remarks led Peter Kyle, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology to allege he was “on the side of turning the clock back to when strange adults can get in touch via messaging apps with children.”
Peter Kyle -Credit:Sky
Kyle said: “If people like Jimmy Saville were alive today, he would be perpetrating his crimes online. And Nigel Farage is saying that he’s on their side, not the side of the children.”
During an emergency broadcast after the comments were made, Farage dubbed the attack “so absolutely disgusting that it’s almost beyond belief”.
He said: “Just how low can the Labour government sink in its desperation? Yes of course they’re in trouble, they’re well behind us in the opinion polls, but frankly to say that I would do anything that would in any way aid and abet people like Jimmy Savile is frankly so below the belt…”
Farage also demanded an apology from the Labour minister.
He took to X to write: “Peter Kyle’s comments on Sky News are disgusting. He should do the right thing and apologise.
Farage’s supporters took to social media to reply to his tweet as one wrote: “Sky News should apologise for its existence.”
A second echoed: “Says more about him than it does about you lol f he doesn’t apologise.”
A third wrote: “They have just lost more voters from the comments he just made. Absolutely vile.”
However, others fumed that Kyle had nothing to be sorry for.
One hit back: “Peter Kyle is right. At least he holds surgeries in his constituency which is more than you do. Just stop the manufactured outrage.”
Another commented: “He’s got nothing to apologise for.”
Meanwhile, someone else said: “Do you ever apologise Nigel? No.”