LBC presenter James O’Brien has demanded an apology from Reform UK after a “disgusting” personal attack on X. O’Brien was targeted by the Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket Reform UK account on the site, formerly Twitter, which described him as “sub-human”, a “sore loser” and “human garbage”.

Now he has lashed out, claiming the official response from the branch’s chairman has left him underwhelmed. Speaking on his radio show, he said: “We haven’t heard back from the Reform UK press office, after we contacted them in expectation of an apology for the publication of some absolutely hideous comments about me!

“About your humble correspondent! Including one in which they described me, or the account that was run by the Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket branch of Reform UK, described me as ‘sub-human’.”

He added: “We’ve heard back from the county councillor, who runs the operation. The chairman of the Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket Reform UK branch. They’ve not apologised, as far as I’m aware.

“They’ve taken down the sites now, and then to quote Simon Alders, they don’t have the ‘technical knowhow to establish exactly these bad actors are’, adding that they found the content ‘very disturbing’.

“They have said… I’m just double-checking this. If we have any information about who might have called me sub-human on their Twitter account…”

Incredulously, O’Brien choked out: “Am I… I’m not going mad again, am I? So I’m sure I’ll be getting a personal apology from Nigel Farage, or indeed from the local party in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket imminently.”