Farage Aide Hits Back at ‘Personal Toll’ of Attacks on Him – Guido Fawkes

Farage Aide Hits Back at ‘Personal Toll’ of Attacks on Him

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A top Farage aide has taken to the Spectator to defend himself after reports that Labour is targeting the Reform leader’s high-level personnel. The magazine reported last week: “an ‘attack team’ has been assembled in No. 10 with the remit of challenging Reform. The team will work under Morgan McSweeney.” This has been denied by Downing Street…

Farage’s longtime aide George Cottrell has now penned a piece in the magazine asking what “are the limits of Labour’s ‘opposition research’ – better known as the ‘dark arts’?” Cottrell says allegations have been made against him for years but “what’s changed is how these attacks are amplified… accounts use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and X’s Grok to spread misinformation.” He says this distorts what journalists report…

“The personal toll is profound. They imperil my petition for a US presidential pardon, following my 2017 plea deal, and have necessitated a 24-hour security team and an army of libel lawyers and investigators amid intimidation that endangers my family’s safety and privacy.”

Cottrell adds: “If we aim to restore faith in our institutions, we must return politics to its proper form: a competition of visions and ideas, rather than a battle of character assassination.” Positive X Day on 30 August couldn’t come quickly enough…