Nigel Farage reveals he gets 30 death threats a week

SARAH VINE: My family was targeted by a killer, but I never had Ann Widdecombe's courage in the face of such vitriol on social mediaSee more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy JASON GROVES, POLITICAL EDITOR Published: 23:00 BST, 14 July 2026 | Updated: 01:08 BST, 15 July 2026

Nigel Farage has revealed he gets 30 death threats a week – as ministers were accused of 'playing politics' with his safety.Reform UK said it has recorded 1,577 threats against Mr Farage since February, including 597 death threats.The figures include multiple threats from a number of individuals who the party believes are 'fixated' with the idea of killing him.Mr Farage will present the figures when he holds talks with the head of the Home Office's elite security team in a bid to improve protection for Reform MPs following the murder of Ann Widdecombe.The scale of the threat emerged amid an escalating row about the level of protection offered to Mr Farage by the authorities.Reform's Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick accused ministers of 'playing politics with the safety of politicians'.He told the BBC: 'I suspect that's because they don't like the views the Reform politicians take forward because we are not mainstream politicians. We are politicians who are fighting the establishment every single day, and we're not backing down.'Downing Street rejected the claim – and pointed out that Mr Farage has now been offered a meeting with the chairman of the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (Ravec), which co-ordinates security for members of the Royal Family and senior politicians. At risk: Reform revealed Nigel farage gets hundreds of threatening messages each monthThe offer was made by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood in the light of the attack on Miss Widdecombe.Mr Jenrick accused Ms Mahmood of a 'dereliction of duty', saying she 'could have offered that meeting a year ago, two years ago – she chose not to.A No 10 spokesman said Keir Starmer wanted all MPs to have access to appropriate security. 'The Prime Minister is clear that no politician should be targeted or face abuse, regardless of their views,' the spokesman said.Mr Jenrick acknowledged that Mr Farage had been offered a security package similar to that provided to Kemi Badenoch, including a car and bodyguard. But Mr Jenrick said the offer did not reflect the level of threat he faces.A Reform spokesman said: 'Within days of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, at a moment when the threat to public figures on the right was escalating, the security package Mr Farage was offered represented a 75 per cent cut without clear reason.'Faced with a state offer that no longer matched the threat against him, Nigel declined the downgraded and inadequate package and Reform took the responsible decision to maintain proper protection rather than gamble with his life.'Dame Prue Leith said she 'worries' about the safety of her MP son Danny Kruger, who is a leading figure in Reform.The celebrity chef told Times Radio: 'I think it is scary. It seems so amazing that this should be happening in the UK, which I've always thought of as the most civilized country about politics.'It's always been a proper country. You don't reach for the gun when you don't agree with somebody, you debate it and you vote on it.'Reform has compiled a dossier of hundreds of threatening messages received by Mr Farage, many of them posted on the social media site X.They include 597 death threats – equal to an average of four a day or almost 30 a week.One, posted on 23 June, stated: 'Execute the stinking traitor Nigel Farage. TODAY.'Another, sent two days later by a persistent individual, said: 'Get the f*** out of Wales before I just kill Nigel Farage… you can die at any f***ing moment.'A third sent on 2 July accompanied by an image of a noose, said: 'In 1916, traitors like you would have ended your days early in the Tower of London.'One message, sent from a suspected neo-Nazi account, said Mr Farage would 'get executed' as a 'race traitor'.Former Tory Cabinet minister Sir Robert Buckland, who is conducting a review into MPs' security following the murder of Tory MP Sir David Amess, said it was clear protection had to be stepped up – but warned against measures that would make people 'more remote from those who they serve'.