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The woman who attacked Nigel Farage has been charged with assault.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Nigel Farage, who announced his candidature for UK election earlier this week, was splashed with banana milkshake during a campaign stop. The attack took place outside a pub in Clacton-on-Sea on Tuesday, and a woman has been arrested and charged with assault, the BBC<\/em> reported<\/a>. Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, is due to appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, July 2, the outlet further said quoting Essex Police. A 44-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker has been released and will face no further action.<\/p>\n

Mr Farage, the Reform UK leader, was splashed with the yellow liquid in a McDonald’s cup when he was about to board a campaign bus.<\/p>\n

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The 60-year-old had earlier addressed a group of people, after announcing he would stand for election in the constituency.<\/p>\n

He later joked about the incident<\/a> saying in a post on X “my milkshake brings all the people to the rally”. It was a reference to the 2003 song Milkshake by Kelis which has lyrics that include similar words.<\/p>\n

Richard Tice, Mr Farage’s predecessor as Reform UK leader, said: “The juvenile moron who threw a drink over Nigel has just gained us hundreds of thousands more votes.”<\/p>\n

Home Secretary James Cleverly condemned the attack.<\/p>\n

“There is no excuse to resort to behaviour like this. We may disagree, but we debate, and then we vote,” he said.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time that Mr Farage has faced a milkshake attack. In 2019, he had a banana and salted caramel milkshake thrown at him while campaigning in Newcastle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n