Nigel Farage has hit back at Jess Phillips after she suggested the Reform UK leader's pledge to scrap the Online Safety Act would empower “modern-day Jimmy Saviles”.

Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Farage said the comments were "sinking to the gutter of politics."

It comes after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said Farage was putting himself on the side of “extreme pornographers” and people like Savile by opposing the law.

Farage said the comparison was "inappropriate" because Savile was "famously never online".

He added that he would "love to see effective legislation that protected young children from harmful and dangerous material"; however, he argued the Online Safety Act does not do that, and rather "extends right into the area of free speech".

He said he would be "

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