Peter Kyle's accusations against Nigel Farage have been branded "disgusting" by Reform UK's Zia Yusuf in a blistering attack on the Labour Minister's remarks.
Speaking to GB News, the Chair of Reform UK's Doge Unit tore into Kyle, accusing him of "smearing" the party leader.
Doubling down on his remarks on the People's Channel, Kyle declared Nigel Farage "will make it easier for predators and paedophiles to have access to children".
He stated: "There is no definitive grey areas about this. Either you're on the side of predators and paedophiles as Nigel Farage is, because he wants them to have more access to our children online, or you are with the Labour Party, where we are making sure we are holding the tech companies to account, to prevent that kind of access, to keep children safer."
Zia Yusuf has hit out at Peter Kyle's accusations against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage
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Criticising Kyle's comments, Yusuf told GB News: "It's the most disgusting thing I've heard a politician say about another politician in the political arena that I can remember in my lifetime. It is the an act of desperation from a Government that is collapsing in real time before our very eyes.
"Their support is collapsing, they are eight points now behind Reform, and that's before the Corbyn party's really gotten going, at which point I think there will be 10 to 15 points. And ultimately the man he has attacked so disgustingly will be the Prime minister at the next general election, and he will be looking for a new job."
Weighing in on the Online Safety Act, which sparked the row between Kyle and Farage, Yusuf said the laws are "protecting predators" rather than "protecting children".
Yusuf said: "This notion that there is some dichotomy here between child safety and and freedom of speech, it's total nonsense. If you look at what's actually happened, since this law has come into force to maximal effect over the last 48 hours, what have we actually seen?
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"Forget about improving child safety, it is diminishing child safety. It is protecting predators. This is Orwellian and dystopian, and it is going to make children less safe for a whole bunch of reasons."
Yusuf even suggested that Farage could take legal action over the comment.
He told GB News: "Nigel's got good lawyers, and generally when Nigel engages lawyers, he wins. So let's see what happens.
"My personal view on this is that British people are going to see this for what it is, which is some of the last acts of a desperate Labour Government that is sinking in the polls and clearing the path for Nigel to be the next Prime Minister."
Yusuf told GB News that Kyle's remarks are a 'desperate act of a sinking Government'
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Asked by host Andrew Pierce on how a Reform Government will "protect children from being abused online by perverts and paedophiles", Yusuf made clear that there "are tools available" to protect them.
He explained: "We absolutely do think children need to be protected from harm online. It's a difficult technical problem, but there are tools available, like zero knowledge proofs, which is a form of token basically that can sit on a device that has no stores, no personal information, but does allow for age verification in a in a way that doesn't hold personal information.
"But I want to be clear, the vast majority of this act of this bill has nothing to do with child safety.
"So we will create an act, we will have a bill that is technically competent, technically sound, that does nothing other than protect children, and does not seek to muzzle and censor the British people."
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