Writing on X on Wednesday, Chorley said:, external “I owe Nigel Farage an apology.
“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’.
“This was a mistake on my part, a misremembering of the quote. It didn’t change the content of the interview but I should have got the quote right. I apologise to Nigel Farage for this.”
Chorley gave the wrong quote on camera three times during the interview with Badenoch.
The BBC also apologised directly to Farage and published an apology, which said he had been quoted “mistakenly”.
The episode has been removed from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, and an apology will be broadcast on Wednesday’s edition of Newsnight.
Writing on X on Wednesday, Farage said, external his legal team had “written to the BBC demanding a full on-air apology and investigation into the defamatory comments made about me on Newsnight”, adding: “Enough is enough.”
The Reform leader posted a link to a Daily Mail story that reproduced elements of the party’s letter to the BBC.
In the letter, Reform said Chorley’s error “converts a criticism of discriminatory conduct by the authorities into an apparent appeal to race”.
“It suggests that Mr Farage, far from condemning racialised treatment, was himself invoking race as a basis for public anger.”