Nigel Farage launched a fresh attack on Labour after Peter Kyle claimed he was on the side of disgraced paedophile Jimmy Savile
Nigel Farage has lashed out at Keir Starmer at the Labour party after Peter Kyle claimed he was aligned with Britain’s most notorious paedophile Jimmy Savile. Speaking to Sky News presenter Wilfred Frost, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology said the Reform UK leader’s opposition to the Online Safety Act means he is “on the side of turning the clock back to when strange adults can get in touch via messaging apps with children.” He claimed: “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.”
His appearance on Sky News came after Reform announced it would scrap the online safety legislation if the party won the next election. Kyle’s remarks sparked heavy backlash, with Farage demanding an apology from the Labour minister. Taking to X, he wrote: “Peter Kyle’s comments on Sky News are disgusting. He should do the right thing and apologise.” The 61-year-old has now slammed Labour once again while speaking to LBC presenter Nick Ferarri.
Farage fumed: “Calling me an enabler for people like Jimmy Savile. Absolutely appalling. I also thought it was incredibly badly judged in this sense that when Boris Johnson, three years ago, accused Starmer and said, ‘You were the guy that could have prosecuted Jimmy Savile and you failed to do so.’
“The levels of moral indignation that we got from Labour on this. And yet they use the Savile analogy with me.”
Ferrari, 66, shared reports that the line was authorised by number 10, leading Farage to launch a brutal attack on the Labour Party.
He said: “I think they’re losing the plot in every way. I really do and I think we’re at a place where the PM in particular, and others, they’ve become completely obsessed with me.”
Nigel Farage claimed the Labour Party is “obsessed (Image: LBC)
In 2022, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused Starmer of spending most of his time in the job “prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile”.
The comments sparked a week-long row in Westminster, with Kyle standing beside the Labour leader as one of his biggest defenders.
Days later, Mr Johnson said he was not talking about Starmer’s personal record but “making a point about his responsibility for the organisation as a whole”.
Starmer was outraged by the comments, telling Sky News at the time: “It is a ridiculous slur peddled by right-wing trolls. And the disgust, and that’s where I saw the faces of the Conservative MPs, on their faces that their Prime Minister was debasing himself by sinking so low in the Chamber was clear.”
He continued: “They knew he was going so low with that slur, with that lie. He had been advised not to do it, because it’s obviously not true. But he does it because he doesn’t understand what honesty and integrity mean.
“When I was DPP, I was superintended by a Conservative Attorney General so it’s as ridiculous as it gets. And I’m glad those Conservative MPs were disgusted and expressed it to me that their Prime Minister was debasing himself in the House of Commons instead of acting with contrition and integrity he should have shown.”
Starmer added: “He did what he always does which is trying to drag everybody into the gutter with him.”
