Nigel Farage, the leader of the far-right Reform Party, was attacked today, the second day after he launched his election campaign, when a man threw objects at him during an open-top bus tour.

Farage was passing through Barnsley, in northern England, greeting the crowd from the bus when a man threw what looked like large, broken stones at him, as footage on social networking sites shows. The objects did not reach him.

Police arrested a 28-year-old man on charges of disturbing public order. He is believed to have been throwing objects he found at a nearby construction site.

Farage, as a representative of Euroscepticism and anti-immigration sentiment, has been a divisive figure in Britain for decades. He is best known for encouraging Britons to vote to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum. He is now running for a parliamentary seat in the July 4 election.

“I will not be intimidated or intimidated by a violent left-wing mob that hates our country,” he wrote on the X platform.

Last week a 25-year-old woman was arrested on assault charges after throwing a drink in his face at close range as he left a pub.