Emotional Nigel Farage reveals Henry Nowak fears and blasts 'out of touch' Keir Starmer

Nigel Farage said parents will be "more fearful" about their children going out following Henry Nowak's murder. The 18-year-old was fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa in Southampton last year after a night out.

His death has sparked a political row after he was handcuffed by police as he lay dying following claims by his killer that he had been the victim of a racial attack. Speaking on GB News, the Reform leader was visibly emotional as he said: "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 also accused Sir Keir Starmer of being "out of touch" after the Prime Minister criticised him for saying the public should feel “pure, cold rage”.

The Reform leader said: "The Prime Minister will accuse anyone that disagrees with his out-of-touch, out-of-date woke agenda of division, of racism, of goodness knows what.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."

Mr Farage said there was "real fear" among MPs when he gave an address during PMQs in the Commons yesterday.

The Clacton MP 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."

Mr Farage doubled down on his warning of "two-tier policing" and added: "In my 35 years of being involved in current affairs and politics I have never seen a time when our political leaders and most of our mainstream media have been more out of touch on their reflection of an incident than they have been over the last three days.

"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."

Asked why he did not immediately condemn violent protests which erupted earlier this week, Mr Farage said: “Of course I condemn all violence. I always have… I’ve never, in 35 years of being in politics, advocated people going outside the law.

“When I did that big video that got all those millions of views, I was quite careful not to blame the police officers themselves too much.”

He said he would meet Henry's family, adding: "We are going to meet. I don’t know when, but we have agreed to meet.”