Peter Kyle accuses Nigel Farage of being on side of ‘extreme pornographers’ | Reform UK

The technology secretary, Peter Kyle, has accused Nigel Farage of being on the side of “extreme pornographers” over his party’s pledge to scrap the Online Safety Act.

Reform UK said on Monday it would repeal the legislation, arguing that measures intended to push social media companies to limit false and potentially harmful content would make the UK “a borderline dystopian state”.

Farage and his close aide Zia Yusuf told a press conference that a Reform government would immediately repeal the legislation and seek other ways to replicate its efforts in protecting children from harmful content, for example about suicide. They said they did not yet know how this would be done.

Responding on Sky News, Kyle said Farage was on the side of “extreme pornographers” and of people like…