UK police said a 25-year-old woman had been arrested on suspicion of assault.
Populist British politician Nigel Farage had a milkshake thrown at him as he kicked off his first day of campaigning in the country's general election.
Milkshakes became an unlikely political weapon during Britain's acrimonious disputes over Brexit after the 2016 referendum.Farage is making an eighth attempt to win a seat in the House of Commons.The return of the populist politician, a key player in Britain's 2016 decision to leave the European Union, is a major headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's centre-right Conservative Party, which already trails Labour in opinion polls.
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