Nigel Farage's criticism of the UK's Online Safety Act exposes deep UK–US divisions on free speech as US lawmakers warn the law could enable global censorship.

Nigel Farage has declared that Reform UK would repeal legislation designed to regulate online content that is “illegal” or “deemed harmful to children”. Farage’s comments about the Online Safety Act did not go down well with the science secretary, Peter Kyle, who has strongly criticised the Reform leader’s stance.

Peter Kyle said the Reform leader is ‘on the side of turning the clock back to… when strangers can get in touch via messaging apps with children’.