Reform UK says the British government slashed the state-provided security detail to leader Nigel Farage just weeks before embarking on what the party claimed was targeted incitement of the hard-left to attack Mr Farage and his colleagues.

The Home Office, the UK government department analogous to an interior ministry and which deals with issues including security and policing, has “decimated Nigel’s security detail” by reducing it by 75 per cent, Reform UK spokesman Zia Yusuf said on Wednesday morning.

While party donors stepped in to boost the security package provided to Mr Farage privately, given his history of being a target for attacks and recent assassinations and attempts against political figures in Western nations, Mr Yusuf said the development gave context to the sudden flow of

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