Nigel Farage appeared visibly emotional as he declared that parents are “more fearful than they have ever been” following the murder of Henry Nowak.
Speaking exclusively to GB News, the Reform UK leader reflected on the case as a parent and argued that there has “never been a time” where “our political leaders and most of our mainstream media have been more out of touch on their reflection of an incident”.
Nowak, 18, was murdered by 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa in December 2025, telling police when they arrived that Mr Nowak had racially abused him.
Police chose to handcuff the dying teenager and arrest him as they read him his rights, leading to nationwide outrage from Britons and political figures.
Sitting down with GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope, Mr Farage spoke on his perception of Mr Nowak’s murder “on a human level”.
Appearing visibly emotional, the Reform leader admitted: “On a human level, when he [Henry Nowak] heard the blaring sirens, he must have thought, ‘thank goodness help’s at hand’. And he got the opposite.
“You asked me as a father, and I think all of us are more fearful of our teenage kids going out and having fun, whether it’s going to a concert, to the pub, whatever it is, I think we’re all more fearful for our kids going for a night out in our cities now than we’ve ever been, I’m afraid.”
Mr Farage argued that in his 35-year political career, he has never seen the political class “more out of touch” in response to such an incident.
He argued: “Just to say we must come together, just to say we’ll crack down hard on the far-right, what you have to do is provide solutions.
“And the only solution here is genuine radical change to a perverse agenda that has now swung a pendulum from what may well have been a problem too far in the other direction. And that is what I’m seeking.”
A visibly emotional Nigel Farage has spoken out on GB News of his ‘fears’ for his children following the murder of Henry Nowak
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Taking aim at Sir Keir Starmer, Mr Farage accused the Prime Minister of being “out of touch” with the British public, attacking anyone who “disagrees with his woke agenda”.
The Reform leader told GB News: “The Prime Minister will accuse anyone that disagrees with his out-of-touch, out-of-date woke agenda of division, of racism, of goodness knows what.
“We have a Prime Minister with his head firmly stuck in the sand, who is a decade behind where public opinion has come on many, many things. The Prime Minister is out of touch with the country.”
During a heated exchange during Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir told Mr Farage: “I’m really shocked that he pretends to have respect for Henry’s family and then acts in this way. His response has been to appeal for rage, that’s his response to a father who’s lost his son and asked for that not to happen.”
Pressed by Christopher on the clash, Mr Farage was quizzed on why he did not publicly condemn the violence at the recent Southampton protests.
The Reform UK leader hit out at Keir Starmer for being ‘out of touch’ with the British public
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Mr Farage responded: “Because I warned there’d be even more violence unless we took some action. Isn’t it marvellous – 600 MPs all come together to say ‘let’s unite, let’s condemn the far-right thugs, let’s condemn them’, but let’s do nothing.”
Christopher interjected, arguing: “They’ve got an IOPC review, that review will and could be expanded wider. The Government says if it finds thematic issues, if DEI is the problem, as you suggest, they might go further.”
The Reform leader made clear: “I don’t suggest it, I know it. The printed documents that have come from the police chief’s specific instructions not to police people equally. I mean, can you even believe that?
“There it is, in black ink, in documents handed down, police officers are trained on this. So of course I condemn all violence, I always have, but what they don’t want to listen to in the Commons is that if you don’t get rid of the perception, reality, both, of two-tier policing, you finish up with lots and lots of angry young, white working class men.”
Mr Farage told GB News he observed a “real fear” in the faces of MPs during his address to PMQs.
He said: “The entire political class, 600 of them were against me yesterday – screaming, shouting. And actually, the look of fear on their faces, real fear.
“Because they know I’m more in touch with the great British public than they are on this. The great British public are a very fair-minded lot, and they absolutely want everybody that is here legally to be treated equally before the law.
“I defy any fair-minded people to watch that video and not be angry. I wanted to express it as cold rage, not hot anger, not violent outbursts.
“Cold rage means that you’re boiling inside about it, but you’re not in any way – and you’ve known me long enough – I’ve never in 35 years of being in politics, advocated people going outside the law. Not once.”
Responding to Mr Farage’s claims, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch told GB News that she is “not afraid of anybody”.
She said: “The fact is I stand there week in, week out, I have 400 Labour MPs screaming at me, and you don’t see me whining about it.
“Parliament is a tough place – if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”