Overview

• Labour has launched attack adverts linking Nigel Farage to Andrew Tate, arguing Farage’s pledge to scrap the Online Safety Act endangers women’s safety.
• Reform UK insists the Act constitutes censorship of free speech but offers no detailed alternative for online protections.
• Deputy PM Angela Rayner cautions that repeal would reverse safeguards against revenge porn and violent misogyny, warning it could fail a generation of young women.
• Ministers highlight at least 90 convictions under the Act between January and December 2024 and charity data that one million young women in England and Wales have suffered intimate-image abuse.
• Technology Secretary Peter Kyle’s disputed Savile comparison of Farage remains unresolved, underscoring the campaign’s personal and heated tactics.