Man Arrested for Threatening to Shoot Nigel Farage After Parliamentary Referral

Metropolitan Police officers arrested a man in his 20s on Tuesday 14 July 2026 on suspicion of sending threatening communications to a member of parliament. The arrest took place at a residential address in south London and followed a social media post made during the May 2026 local elections.

” Parliamentary authorities reported the message to police on Friday 8 May 2026 after it was flagged by Parliament’s security information and risk analysis service.

Detectives obtained user contact details from the platform before the arrest. The man was held in custody overnight and released on bail. Conditions require him to avoid contacting Nigel Farage, limit social media use, and stay out of the Westminster area.

Nigel Farage said the action marked the first time police had proactively acted on such a post. He added that hundreds of similar threats had been reported in the past without meeting the required threshold. Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, described an overwhelming sense of fear among Reform MPs after the killing of former MP and party spokesperson Ann Widdecombe at her Dartmoor home last week.

Police are examining possible leftwing political motives in that case. Last year an Afghan man who entered the UK on a small boat was convicted of threatening to kill Farage in a TikTok video.