Farage: My Home Was Firebombed

Arsonists targeted Nigel Farage by pushing a firebomb through the letterbox of his home, the Reform Party leader has revealed. The Mail has more.

Farage, 62, said the petrol bomb fortunately burnt out before causing any significant damage during the incident last year.

He has labelled the event as an “outright arson attempt”.

Farage recalled how the attack, which came at the start of 2025, occurred while he was not inside the property – with the politician discovering the damage only when he opened his front door. 

Police have investigated, but as yet no suspects have been identified. 

Speaking from Norfolk while currently touring the country ahead of local elections, Farage told the Telegraph that the attempted arson had not been the only attack he has experienced over recent months.

He said: “Sometimes things happen when there are cameras there, but there are plenty of times when things don’t make the news, like pints of beer being thrown over me or the attack on my home.

“I also had to write off a car once because it was attacked by protesters when I was in it.”

Farage told the Telegraph:

It was an outright arson attempt. I wasn’t at home at the time, but when I came back and opened the door I found the damage. Luckily it had burned itself out in the porch, and we think maybe the perpetrators were disturbed in the act. The police were all over it. They did their best but there are no suspects so far. …

I’m acutely aware of the love for me, but equally the levels of antipathy that exist.

Sometimes things happen when there are cameras there, but there are plenty of times when things don’t make the news, like pints of beer being thrown over me or the attack on my home.

I also had to write off a car once because it was attacked by protesters when I was in it.

I would rather not be discussing any of this but I am having to because someone has got hold of material about my private finances, which is outrageous, and which I believe was illegally obtained.

The Telegraph adds:

Farage said he first became concerned for his safety when he was “surrounded by a mob outside the Scottish Parliament” in 2013 and “the situation has deteriorated since the rabid Left decided that violence is acceptable”.

He added: “There is also the online threat, with people encouraging the use of violence against me, which we have reported to the police several times with no response that I can discern whatsoever and the pretty much point-blank refusal of the British state to help me.”

Farage tried and failed to secure Home Office-funded security in 2019, so Harborne, a committed Brexiteer, stepped in and told him he would underwrite Farage’s security bill himself.

When Farage became an MP in 2024, he was given what he called a “reasonable level of protection” but it was withdrawn following a parliamentary security review.