Police have arrested a man for threatening to shoot and kill Nigel Farage.

The man, in his 20s, was arrested on Tuesday in London after a post on X warned the Reform UK leader: ‘I am going to shoot you in the head if you win.’

The suspect is understood to have described himself as a terrorist on social media.

The arrest for the threat on Mr Farage’s life came just days after former MP and Reform spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe was killed in a ‘targeted attack’.

The post on X was made on May 8 on the day of the local elections, but the suspect was only arrested yesterday – almost two months later and six days after Miss Widdecombe was found dead in the kitchen of her remote Dartmoor bungalow.

According to The Telegraph, his profile shows a picture of a British Asian man.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police told Mr Farage this morning a male had been arrested on suspicion of sending a threatening communication.