NIGEL Farage warned any American could be the next Graham Linehan to be arrested after arriving in “awful authoritarian” Britain.

Giving evidence to the US Congress, the Reform leader compared the UK to communist North Korea, adding no one was safe from the reach of our overbearing regulators and cops for things they post on social media.

He told a heated session of the House Judiciary Committee that the comedian’s arrest “could happen to any American man or woman who has said something online that the British government doesn’t like”.

The row over free speech in the UK risks upending Donald Trump's state visit later this month after the Father Ted creator was detained by five armed officers over a joke on X and published while he was in the United States.

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