Met Police say they have arrested a man in his 20s over an alleged social media threat to shoot Nigel Farage, Reform UK’s leader. The force says the arrest relates to a social media post made earlier in the year, which reported that the user would “shoot you in the head if you win.” The post is dated to May, around the time of UK local elections, and was reported to police on 8 May. After detectives sought information from the social media platform and the relevant details were returned, the man was arrested at a residential address in south London on Tuesday 14 July. He is held to have been arrested on suspicion of sending threatening communications to a Member of Parliament. Police say he was kept in custody overnight and has since been bailed pending further enquiries. Multiple outlets report that Farage was an MP at the time of the alleged offence, though he formally resigned from Parliament last week. The arrest follows wider debate about MPs’ safety after the death of Reform spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe in Devon, which some reports note is being investigated by counter-terrorism police, including whether the suspect sought to target Reform MPs.