Andrew Tate

Nigel Farage has been accused of being a supporter of controversial online influencer Andrew Tate in a new Labour attack ad.

It comes just weeks after a cabinet minister compared the Reform UK leader to Jimmy Savile and is a further a sign of the government’s concern at his party’s popularity.

The attack ad, being launched on Sunday, refers to comments Farage made on the ‘Strike It Big’ podcast last year.

He told the hosts, who are three male influencers in their 20s, that Tate was “an important voice” for many young men.

Farage said: “You three guys, you are all 25, you are all kind of being told you can’t be blokes, you can’t do laddish, fun, bloke things … that masculinity is something we should look down upon, something we should frown upon. It’s like the men are becoming feminine and the women are becoming masculine and it’s a bit difficult to tell these days who’s what.

“And Tate fed into that by saying, ‘Hang on, what’s wrong with being a bloke? What’s wrong in male culture? What’s wrong in male humour?’ He fed into those things. His was a campaign of raising awareness. His was a campaign of giving people, perhaps, a bit of confidence at school or whatever it was to speak up.”

In May, Tate was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service with 11 alleged offences, including........

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