Moment protesters storm Reform UK occasion earlier than being booted out by safety guards
A recording has captured a slew of hecklers shouting down Nigel Farage as he struggles to get through his speech at a Reform UK press conference today.
The party leader was interrupted by at least six protesters at the unveiling of Reform’s mayoral candidate for Doncaster.
Farage was on stage in the South Yorkshire city and had been speaking for less than a minute when the first protester shouted out.
The 60-year-old waved at the crowd before registering what happened, shouting: ‘Oh dear, we’ve got a screamer! We’ve got a screamer!’
He was then met with roars of applause. Spurred on, he called to the heckler: ‘Come and fight us at the ballot box!
‘Why doesn’t he put himself up as a candidate and we’ll take him on at the ballot box in a democracy.’
Farage quickly resumed by telling the crowd of the last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, who died last week aged 105.
But another demonstrator interrupts before he can make his point, prompting red-faced Farage to pause once again and say ‘You don’t look very well’.
Nigel Farage on stage at today’s unveiling of Reform’s mayoral candidate for Doncaster
A heckler shouted at Farage as she is escorted out by security guards
‘Well actually – be fair. Didn’t look very well to me,’ he quips, addressing the crowd.
Hoping to pick up where he left off, Farage returned to his unfinished war pilot anecdote, but was interrupted yet again by shouts from the crowd.
‘Oh go home, go home. Haven’t you got a job to go to?’ he called after a woman as she was escorted out by security.
‘I was going to say “haven’t you got a job to go to” but it looks pretty unlikely, doesn’t it?’
With the crowd having descended into chaos and security scrambling to remove the rebellious attendees, Farage pushed on.
Seconds later, one of the crowd calls out ‘Free Palestine!’ in the fourth interruption of the conference.
Farage says: ‘There we are, free Palestine!’
The woman was marched out by staff while the Reform leader began to make a point about the ‘hard left’ and ‘Antifa’ protesters.
Farage referred to the hecklers as ‘hard left’ and ‘Antifa’ protestors
At the third interruption, the crowd had descended into chaos
He was then met with a fifth interruption, to which he said: ‘Go back to school please!’
In an attempt to shout the heckler down, he began to chant: ‘Boring! Boring! Boring!’
Cheers of ‘Nigel’ filled the room and an air of relative calm was restored when the sixth protester began calling out.
Farage replied: ‘Have a look at that! The anger, the anger! You must be at uni.’
