Farage calls Minister's Saville comment ''disgusting''

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Nigel Farage stands by his demands for a Cabinet minister to apologise for accusing him of being on the side of “extreme pornographers”. It comes as Technology Secretary Peter Kyle hit out at Reform UK’s pledge to scrap the Online Safety Act if they were to get into power. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Absolutely disgusting. Disgusting. To compare anybody's actions with the

00:05Valjean Le Savile is completely below the belt. Yes, there's to and fro in

00:09politics. This was appalling. All I asked for was an apology and he simply doubled

00:14down and it's a disgrace and I stand absolutely for what I've said. The

00:20children are not being protected. They're signing up for VPNs where they can

00:25access content. It is even worse than they could have done before this

00:30instrument came in. And also, you know, people in glass houses, I mean perhaps you

00:35should remember that his own leader Keir Starmer had to apologise for not

00:39prosecuting Jimmy Savile. This is legislation that we're told is designed

00:44to protect children but it doesn't because they're tech savvy and they go on

00:48to VPNs and some of these sites have had increases of thousands of percent in the

00:53last three days alone. And if it's here to protect children, why under this act is a

01:00crack police unit being set up to monitor what people say about illegal immigration

01:06and asylum hotels? We are opening with this act a door into a very dark place of

01:14state censorship of what we think, believe and say. I think it's one of the most

01:19dangerous piece of legislation in a democracy I've seen in my lifetime.

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