Police have arrested a man for threatening to shoot and kill Nigel Farage.

The man was arrested on Tuesday in London after a post on X warned the Reform UK leader: ‘I am going to shoot you in the head if you win.’ 

The suspect is understood to have described himself as a terrorist on social media. 

The threat on Mr Farage’s life came just days after former MP and Reform spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe was killed in a ‘targeted attack’. 

He revealed yesterday that he gets 30 death threats a week. 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 whom the party believes are ‘fixated’ with the idea of killing him. 

The post on X was made on May 8, but the suspect was only arrested yesterday – almost two months later and six days after Miss Widdecombe was found dead in the kitchen of her remote Dartmoor bungalow.

According to The Telegraph, his profile shows a picture of a British Asian man. 

Officers from the Metropolitan Police told Mr Farage this morning a male had been arrested on suspicion of sending a threatening communication.

He has since been released on bail.  

Police have arrested a man for threatening to shoot and kill Reform UK leader Nigel Farage 

Mr Farage told The Telegraph: ‘This is the first time the police have ever proactively acted on a social media post, and I hope they are looking at the other three or four hundred similar posts from this year alone.’

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