When Nigel Farage, leader of the far-right, anti-immigration party Reform UK, addressed the nation while bizarrely standing in a field this week, he was a man on a mission.“It is time to respond with pure cold rage,” he pronounced.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listFarage was speaking about the fatal stabbing of a white teenage boy, Henry Nowak, in December 2025 by a Sikh man armed with a ceremonial knife. When police arrived at the scene, instead of arresting the attacker, they took his (false) word that Novak had racially abused him and refused to believe the 18-year-old when he told them he had been stabbed.Footage from the incident – which Novak’s family have allowed to be released to the public – shows a devastating scene in which the dying boy is handcuffed, uttering his last words, “I can’t breathe.”Many politicians have since leapt on the opportunity to reap political capital from the tragedy. “I just kept thinking, that’s someone’s boy. That could be my boy,” Kemi Badenoch, leader of the former governing – now floundering – Conservative Party, told The Times newspaper on Tuesday.Farage seized the chance to rally Reform supporters against what he has framed as an appalli …
