Reform leader calls the child sexual abuse offender ‘a good man, a really good guy’ in 27-second Cameo video clip

Nigel Farage has fallen victim to another prank on the paid video service Cameo, this time paying tribute to the child sexual abuse offender Ian Watkins.

Cameo allows fans to pay celebrities to make personalised video messages, with the Reform party leader offering his services from £78.45.

In a 27-second video posted online by John Smith, who requested the clip, Farage called the former Lostprophets singer, who was killed in prison last year, “a good man, a really good guy” who “loved his children”.

He pretended to know Watkins, whose victims included a baby boy, and said he was “very much in contact with me”.