Police have confirmed they are investigating after Nigel Farage vowed to “take the knife to the pen pushers in Whitehall” during a Brexit Party rally in Wales.
Farage was addressing the 500-strong crowd in Newport last week when he made the comments.
He told the audience: “Once Brexit is done, we will take the knife to the pen pushers in Whitehall.”
Alliance Party MEP Naomi Long asked police on Twitter if they would be investigating “this clear case of incitement to violence against staff in the civil service”.
Gwent Police replied, saying: “We have been made aware of comments made last night in Newport and we are looking into these allegations.”
The comments come amid growing concern about the language used by politicians in the Brexit debate. Yesterday, former Home Secretary Amber Rudd accused Boris Johnson of “inciting violence” for using words like “Surrender Act”, “traitor” and accusing MPs of “betraying” the people.
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Johnson was also under fire this week after he rubbished concerns raised by Labour MP Paula Sherriff about his “inflammatory” language.
Sheriff told the Commons she receives death threats every day, and warned Johnson that many threats “quote his words”. However, the prime minister replied he had “never heard such humbug in all my life.”
He has also refused to apologise for saying that delivering Brexit was the best way to “honour the memory” of murdered MP Jo Cox.
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