Nigel Farage furiously rejected the claim made this morning (Image: Getty)
A furious Nigel Farage has blasted the husband of murdered MP Jo Cox after he claimed the Reform UK leader's response to the Southport stabbings made him “nothing better than Tommy Robinson in a suit”.
Brendan Cox told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that Nigel Farage’s claim that the truth of the horrific stabbings could be being “withheld from us” was “right out of the Trump playbook”.
Mr Cox added: "In my view it makes Nigel Farage nothing better than a Tommy Robinson in a suit."
"It is beyond the pale to use a moment like this to spread your narrative and to spread your hatred, and we saw the results on Southport’s streets last night."
However, Mr Farage has now hit back furiously against the allegation, saying: “The comment is beneath contempt”.
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My response to the attack in Southport. pic.twitter.com/CCyjKpC7aQ
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) July 30, 2024
The Reform UK leader has now told PA that the comment was “absolutely disgraceful”, and that he is “nothing of the kind”.
Mr Farage insisted: "I merely expressed a sense of sadness and concern that is being felt by absolutely everybody I know – what the hell is going on?
“It started off the week before in Kent, when a Lieutenant Colonel in full military uniform is stabbed in the street and I was told that Kent Police wanted to play the incident down. I got that on the highest level.
“So I think it’s quite legitimate to ask questions as to what the hell is going on.
“And then of course we had Southend at the same time with machete gangs fighting in the streets… I think it’s perfectly reasonable to ask what is happening to law and order in our country.
“And who are the perpetrators? Why? Very legitimate questions I was asking, and to conflate that with EDL or anybody else, frankly, it’s desperate stuff.”
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Riots broke out last night, egged on by the far right (Image: Getty)
Former Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has sided with Mr Cox, however, accusing Nigel Farage of deliberately inflaming tensions.
Reply to a video posted to Twitter by Mr Farage 17 hours ago, he blasted: “I lost my brother to terrorism”.
“To ramp up hatred online by claiming the Southport attack was terrorist related (culminating in riots, a mosque damaged and 27 police injured) is not just reprehensible but needs addressing. Otherwise it will happen again.
“Disgusted how a sitting MP deliberately enflames tensions without any justification.
“Farage should delete this tweet.”
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More than 50 police officers were injured yesterday evening when far-right thugs turned up following false claims on social media that the Southport knife attacker had been a foreign-born Muslim.
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Taking to Facebook she wrote: “This is the only thing that I will write, but please please stop the violence in Southport tonight”.
“The police have been nothing but heroic these last 24 hours and they and we don’t kneed this”.
Her daughter Elise, seven, was murdered alongside Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, and Bebe King, six, on Monday.