Sky News Embarrassed After Attacking Farage for ‘Project Fear’ Over Rising Crime – Guido Fawkes

Sky News Embarrassed After Attacking Farage for ‘Project Fear’ Over Rising Crime

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Sky News Breakfast political correspondent Mhari Aurora is rowing with Nigel Farage this morning after a testy exchange at the Reform leader’s crime conference yesterday. Sky not coming out looking rosy…

After Aurora accused Farage of ‘project fear’ over rising crime he responded at the conference: “They are afraid. I dare you to walk through the West End of London after 9 o’clock wearing jewelry – you wouldn’t do it. And that’s just London.” She responded with an ‘analysis‘ piece for Sky with her “response” which said:

“I am not afraid to walk in the West End of London after 9pm wearing jewellery. I have done it many times before and will continue to do so… but perhaps that is because I do not own a Rolex.”

The piece bizarrely continued:

“Snatch theft does worry me, hence why I now have a phone case with a strap attached to it that I can put around my body. And I worry about knife crime in my area and what the impact could be if I were to have children – on the weekend someone was stabbed to death a stone’s throw from my house…However, if we look at the statistics, it is invariably a more nuanced picture than Farage or social media might have us believe.”

Farage pointed out this morning: “The same journalist who accused me of ‘stoking fear’ over crime also admits to wearing a phone strap because they are afraid of snatch theft. Go figure.”

I never accused you of anything, I merely asked you a question about your strategy 🤔 A question is not an accusation. I also asked you a question about your plans for mental health support in prisons, that was not an accusation either.
And yes – as I said in my piece – I wear a…

— Mhari Aurora (@MhariAurora) August 5, 2025

If you’re going to go for it, get the story straight…