Milkshakes may not be healthy for everyone. Certainly not for a politician like Nigel Farage, the new leader of the United Kingdom’s right-wing Reform UK political party. Farage is running for a seat in Britain’s parliament and is currently on the election campaign trail to woo voters in the seaside town of Clacton which he seeks to represent.
In his first public speech on 4 June, he got a taste of a milkshake in an unexpected way. As Farage was leaving the venue after talking with voters, a woman rushed up to him, splashed a milkshake on his face and ran away, the New York Post (NYP) reported. The incident was caught on camera and the video and photos of a messed up Farage went viral.
The footage showed Farage wiping the milkshake off his face and jacket while being escorted away by bodyguards. The protester was later identified as 25-year-old Victoria Thomas-Bowen, an OnlyFans model who supports a rival candidate. Farage described the incident as “quite frightening,” but said it was just one of the risks of doing old-fashioned meet-and-greets with voters, according to NYP.
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