NIGEL FARAGE and Reform UK risk “failing a generation of young women” if they scrap online safety laws to tackle abuse such as revenge porn, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has warned.

It comes after the Reform leader pledged to repeal the Online Safety Act, arguing that the law threatens free speech.

The Act, introduced at the end of July, requires social media platforms and search engines to prevent children from accessing harmful material, including pornography and content encouraging self-harm.

It also classifies intimate image abuse, or revenge porn, among the “most severe online offences.”

Reform has promised to replace it, though the party has not explained how.

“Nigel Farage risks failing a generation of young women with his dangerous and irresponsible plans to scrap online safety laws,” Ms Rayner said.

“Scrapping safeguards and having no viable alternative plan in place to halt the floodgates of abuse that could open is an appalling dereliction of duty.

“It’s time for Farage to tell women and girls across Britain how he would keep them safe online.”

A million young women have faced revenge porn, with 3.4 million adults affected overall, according to the charity Refuge.