Sky News reports:

Nigel Farage has demanded an apology from a cabinet minister [Peter Kyle] who claimed his opposition to online safety laws meant he was "on the side" of predators, including the late Jimmy Savile.

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Asked to clarify his comments, Mr Kyle said: "Nigel Farage is on the side of turning the clock back to the time when strange adults, strangers can get in touch via messaging apps with children."

[Reform UK is pledging to repeal the Online Safety Act if it wins the next general election.]

This is rather a bizarre assertion as strange adults will still be able to get in touch with children via messaging apps, act or not, through the use of VPNs.

Many people already use VPNs anyway to get around increasing Internet censorship and their use means that porn sites may think you are a non-UK resident and therefore not subject to the age verification demanded by the Online Safety Act.

Zia Yusuf of Reform said Kyle's comment ... shows that Labour has "no idea how the internet actually works", and how "deeply unserious they are about online safety".

And Savile operated at a time when there were no messaging apps. He conducted his activity quite openly in the public view - mostly on the BBC, fixing it for star-struck kids, and in and around Stoke Mandeville hospital. 

No.

FNN thinks that what Farage is asking for an apology for the idea that he wears a gold lame tracksuit, like Savile famously did when he ran the first London marathon in 1981 and is upset that Kyle is questioning his fashion sense.

Although maybe that would be a good idea to help keep the milkshakes off his suits.