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BBC presenter Matt Chorley has issued an apology for incorrectly quoting Nigel Farage during a Newsnight interview concerning the murder of Henry Nowak. The Reform UK leader had described the public’s appropriate response to the killing of the 18-year-old as “pure cold rage” in an online video. However, during a conversation with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch on BBC Two’s Newsnight, Chorley mistakenly attributed to Farage the phrase “white cold rage.”
Reform UK criticized this misquote, stating it implied a racial dimension that was not present in Farage’s original statement, thus altering its meaning. Chorley acknowledged the error, explaining it was a case of misremembering the quote. “During last night’s Newsnight, we covered the murder of Henry Nowak and the political reaction to the case, including discussing Nigel Farage’s comments about ‘pure, cold rage’. However I referred to ‘white cold rage’,” he said. Chorley emphasized that although the mistake did not change the interview’s content, he should have quoted Farage accurately and offered a formal apology.
The incorrect phrase was used three times by Chorley during his exchange with Badenoch. In response, the BBC issued a direct apology to Nigel Farage and published a correction acknowledging that he had been misquoted. Following this, the episode was removed from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, and the BBC announced that an apology would be aired during the next edition of Newsnight. On social media platform X, Farage shared that his legal team had demanded a full on-air apology and an investigation into what they termed defamatory remarks made during the program, stating: “Enough is enough.”
The incident took place against the backdrop of widespread public outrage over Henry Nowak’s murder in Southampton last December. The perpetrator, Vickrum Digwa, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum 21-year term, initially falsely claimed he was the victim of a racist attack. Recently released police bodycam footage showed officers expressing skepticism when Nowak reported the stabbing. The handling of the case by Hampshire Police also sparked protests, during which 11 officers and a police dog sustained injuries. Matt Chorley, who joined the BBC from Times Radio in 2024 and began presenting on Newsnight last year, has since acknowledged his error regarding the quote
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