A WOMAN HAS been charged with assault by beating and criminal damage after a milkshake was thrown at Reform UK leader Nigel Farage following a campaign event in Clacton, Essex, yesterday afternoon.

Essex police said that the 25-year-old woman, named as Victoria Thomas Bowen, will appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on 2 July, in relation to an incident “in which a drink was thrown at a man” on Tuesday.

Farage had the drink thrown over him as he left a JD wetherspoons pub while on the campaign trail. 

He had been speaking to reporters in the Moon and Starfish pub after his rally at Clacton Pier on the east coast.

Images appear to show a McDonald’s banana milkshake being thrown at the Reform UK leader as he left the pub.

The veteran Eurosceptic had earlier addressed supporters at a rally in the town after announcing he would stand for election in the constituency.

He was seen with the yellow drink splattered across his dark blue suit as he boarded his campaign bus.

The force added that a 44-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker has been released and will face no further action.

Farage, who has been the target of “milkshaking” incidents in the past, appeared to make light of the latest incident in a social media video.

In a clip shared online, he raised a McDonald’s milkshake in his hand and said “my milkshake brings all the people to the rally”.

Farage had a 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.