Robert Peston eviscerates Nigel Farage: ‘Why does the family of Henry Nowak mean nothing to you?’

Journalist and presenter Robert Peston took apart Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during his Talking Politics Show, addressing his false claims about two-tier policing and also asking ‘why does the family of Henry Nowak mean nothing to you?’

It comes after Farage was widely criticised for exploiting the horrific murder of Henry Nowak in order to create ‘grievance and division’.

Farage has been widely condemned for using the murder of 18-year-old Nowak, who was stabbed to death by Vickrum Digwa, 23, in Southampton in December last year, to claim that there is two-tier policing in the UK.

Digwa told police that Nowak had attacked him and removed his turban. The court found that Digwa lied.

Nowak was handcuffed by police as he said he couldn’t breathe and that he had been stabbed. A police officer is heard asking him where he had been stabbed and then saying: “I don’t think you have mate”.

Hampshire police have apologised and the force’s Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones described the incident as a “national tragedy”.

Farage called for the public to respond with cold rage, despite Henry’s family saying that they did not want his murder to be used to “create further hatred, division or tension.”

Following Farage’s inflammatory speech, riots broke out in Southampton.

Peston said on his show: “His allegation, is that we now live in a country where white lives, in his view, matter less than those of ethnic minorities. I have to say there is an enormous amount of evidence that that is simply not systemically true.

“We then see people on the far-right  like Tommy Robinson then seizing on this in an even more inflammatory way and you just have to set that against the words of Henry Nowak’s grieving family. The only thing that we’ve heard from them is that they do not want their son’s death to be politicised.

“So my genuine question to Nigel Farage, or Tommy Robinson or anybody who’s on the streets of Southampton is, why does the family of Henry Nowak not mean anything to you?”