Online safety Rayner accuses Reform of failing young women

Nigel Farage is "failing a generation of young women" with his plans to scrap the Online Safety Act, Angela Rayner has said, arguing the move would cause an increase in the prevalence of "revenge porn".

- Peter Walker

The comments by the deputy prime minister are the latest criticism of Farage from the government, with Labour launching a parallel series of attack adverts on the Reform UK leader, including one showing him alongside the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate.

At a press conference last month, Reform promised to scrap the act, which had just come into force, saying that measures intended to push social media companies to limit false and potentially harmful content would instead bring censorship and make the UK "a borderline dystopian state".

In response, the science and technology secretary, Peter Kyle, accused Farage of being on the side of child abusers such as Jimmy Savile, bringing a furious response from the Reform leader.