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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Reform UK vows to repeal ‘borderline dystopian’ Online Safety Act

Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf
Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf at a press conference in London during which they discussed the Online Safety Act. Photograph: Lucy North/PA

Reform UK has promised to repeal the Online Safety Act, arguing that measures intended to push social media companies to limit false and potentially harmful content would instead make the UK “a borderline dystopian state”.

At a press conference in Westminster billed as discussing crime, Nigel Farage and his close aide Zia Yusuf instead spent much of the time discussing the act, which came into force last week, and particularly its approach towards social media.

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