Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on Nigel Farage revealing the weekly number of death threats he gets

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has revealed he gets 30 death threats a week - as ministers are accused of 'playing politics' with his safety. 

He will present the figures when he holds talks with the head of the MPs security team in a bid to improve protection for Reform MPs following the murder of Ann Widdecombe.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says these stats will likely lead to an overall review into security - as violence is on the rise. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Gray are UK correspondents with that's Elogevin Hi. All right,
So Nigel farajk gets quite a few death threats, doesn't
it. It doesn't altogether surprise me.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
No. I think it's the number though, that is really
prominent here. According to the party Reform UK that he
heads up, he receiving at the moment thirty death threats
a week. So since February he has recorded some one thousand,
five hundred and seventy seven threats against him, including five
hundred and ninety seven death threats, and these figures suggest

(00:32):
that a number of individuals are fixated with the idea
of killing him. I mean, just reading some of them
out here, he has received something get out of Wales
before I just kill Nigel Pharahs, you can die at
any moment, execute the stinking trait in Nigel Pharas and
others just saying that he needs to die. So these

(00:55):
are the sorts of things that of course now really
come to a prominence since the killing of and whittickumb
the former prisons minister, the immigration spokeswoman for Reform UK,
and now finally at Nigel Farage has been granted a
meeting with the people who decide the security given to politicians,
and that meeting, we're told, is in the light of

(01:17):
the next few days. So this ammunition that Nigel Faragh
has is definitely going to help. I would suggest get
perhaps the whole thing reviewed, which is what many politicians
are now calling for. We've had the death of two
MP's over the last seven eight years, being murdered. The
fear is that just people are now taking the violence

(01:38):
more readily when they disagree with somebody, and that it
is a deeply, deeply worrying situation.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Now listen, the social media curfew for the kids seems
like a load of tosh, doesn't it? Midnight to sex?
How many of them are awake?

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, midnight to six and not just that, but you
can deactivate it if you want to. So this latest
thought upon the government about how to try to disengage
youngsters from social media is just another piece in that.
And they announced last month that under sixteens in the
UK will be banned entirely from a range of platforms.

(02:11):
Now they're saying older teenagers sixteen and seventeen year olds
will be banned between midnight and six am from the
likes of Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. They're saying that they
also want these addictive features like auto play and infinite
scroll to be disabled to improve sleep quality and family
life and also improve their focus at school the following day.

(02:34):
But critics are saying these proposals are just piecemeal. They're
being rushed through by a Prime minister who's seeing out
his last days and it's a real missed opportunity for
a solid plan to improve children's safety. Of course, a
complete ban on social media for youngsters was introduced to Australia.
Many there are saying it simply does not work because
youngsters are getting rounded. The government says we have to

(02:55):
try and do what we can. But the fact that
it is recognizing they can be disabled board this banning
of nighttime viewing can be disabled quite easily suggests that's
exactly what will happen.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
What happened with Mnesty International.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Here, Yeah, very good question. Amnesty International put out a
report classing one sexual violence support center set up by
jk Rowling, she of the Harry Potter fan as anti rights. Now.
Jk Rowling has documented how she herself is a survivor
of domestic violence. Now this support center was established five

(03:32):
years ago four years ago by the Harry Potter author
and other campaigners because they said there was an unmet
need for women only support in the city now. The
facility was then listed by Amnesty International in a report
called a Growing Threat the anti rights movement in the UK,
and the facility was listed in that report as a

(03:54):
gender critical organization, in other words, that it is in
some way playing into this conversation about whether we are
supporting men, women, trans everyone in the community. The human
rights charity says the briefing was uploaded without going through
the normal checks an Amnesty International has now said it

(04:15):
has withdrawn that particular mention while the internal review takes place.
They say they regret this and say it was not
looked that properly, but the author said it was important
that survivors of abuse had the option of women centered
and women delivered care. Well. It's not the only place
mentioned in the Amnesty International report. There's another one as well.

(04:38):
A campaign group called four Women Scotland Excuse Me, and
they brought the legal case that culminated in the UK
Supreme Court ruling that a woman refers to biological sex
for the purposes of equalities Law. Amnesty report says the
ruling had contributed to and I quote, a significant decline
in protection for LGBT plus rights. There's a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
With this, mate two right, can't even can't even remember
everything all at once. Thank you very much, Gavin, appreciate it.
Gavin Gray, UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
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