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.

Nigel Farage is “on the side” of predators like Jimmy Savile with his criticism of the Online Safety Act, the technology secretary has suggested.  Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology,