The 25-year-old woman who threw a drink in Nigel Farage’s face at an election rally in Clacton, Essex, was today charged with assault.
Victoria Thomas-Bowen was arrested at Clacton pier shortly after she drenched the new Reform UK leader with a banana milkshake.
The OnlyFans model struck as Mr Farage stepped out of a Wetherspoons pub in the seaside town.
Farage — whose shock comeback to the U.K. political scene at the helm of the right-wing challenger party has rattled the ruling Conservatives as a July 4 general election looms — was leaving a Wetherspoons pub when he was hit by a McDonald’s banana milkshake Tuesday.
Essex Police said Bowen will appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on July 2.
Speaking to POLITICO after the rally Tuesday, Farage admitted to being rattled — but described such incidents, which drew condemnation from his political opponents, as an occupational hazard on campaign walkabouts.
“If somebody chucks something and it hits you in the face, it could be anything, it is a bit scary,” he said.
The Reform UK Leader continued: “Nobody does the walkabouts like I do. But there is a risk to them, a risk of violence. And look, come on, if I wasn’t thoughtful about it, I wouldn’t be human.”
