A woman has been charged with assault by beating and criminal damage after a milkshake was thrown at Nigel Farage.
Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, will appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on 2 July following the incident at a campaign event in Clacton, Essex on Tuesday.
A 44-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker has been released and will face no further action.
Clacton is where the Reform UK leader is vying to be an MP after announcing his return to frontline politics this week.
Mr Farage was doused in what appeared to be a McDonald’s banana milkshake as he left a Wetherspoons Moon and Starfish pub at around 2pm.
He was seen with the yellow drink splattered across his dark blue suit as he boarded his campaign bus.
The veteran Eurosceptic initially laughed off the incident, saying “my milkshake brings all the people to the rally”.
But later admitted that it was “quite frightening” and that was the risk that came with his “old-style street campaigning”.
Mr Farage had a £5.25 Five Guys banana and salted caramel milkshake thrown at him in 2019 during a campaign walkabout in Newcastle.
“Milkshaking” – the act of dousing public figures in milkshake – was officially recognised by Collins Dictionary the same year.
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