Woman throws milkshake at Nigel Farage on first day of campaigning | Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage had a milkshake thrown over him on his first day of campaigning in Clacton, the Essex constituency where he is making his eighth attempt to become an MP.

The Reform UK leader was coming out of a pub after a rally on Clacton’s beachfront when a young woman drenched him with what appeared to be a banana milkshake from McDonald’s.

The woman, who gave her name as Victoria, told the BBC she had not come to the event to throw the drink but did so because Farage “did not stand” for her.

Farage had earlier told crowds of supporters that young people’s minds were being “poisoned” in schools as he promised to stand against what he called “woke nonsense”.

He said he would bring investment and jobs to the area, home to some of the most deprived communities in Britain, and said the Tories and Labour were not “genuinely patriotic”.

Farage recalled canvassing with the area’s former Ukip MP, Douglas Carswell, without mentioning the bitter falling out between the two men. He went on to say the Conservatives had “betrayed the trust” of Brexit voters.

“These people, unlike you in Clacton, are not genuinely patriotic people. They don’t believe in Britain and the British people in the way you do,” said Farage, who called Clacton “the most patriotic town in Britain”.

The milkshake incident echoed ones on the 2019 general election campaign trail, including in Newcastle when Farage was similarly doused with a milkshake.

The Reform UK leader claimed earlier in the morning that the Tory “brand is ruined” and that a Labour government would be “out of control” without a strong showing for his party.

The former Ukip and Brexit party leader said on Monday in London that he would stand in Clacton after changing his mind while on the campaign trail supporting other Reform UK candidates, saying he did not want to let his supporters down.