Overview

• Labour ministers have repeatedly likened Reform UK’s repeal pledge to siding with “predators like Jimmy Savile” in their dispute with Nigel Farage.
• Technology Secretary Peter Kyle insists that Savile would exploit today’s online platforms and claims that Farage’s repeal plan favors such criminals.
• Alan Collins, lawyer for Savile’s victims, calls the analogy “disturbing” and warns that invoking Savile retraumatizes abuse survivors.
• Reform UK labels the Online Safety Act “dystopian” and argues its provisions curb free speech and risk ushering in state censorship.
• Nigel Farage has demanded an apology and warned that the law’s strict rules represent the start of state censorship.