She previously denied the charges and was due to go on trial Monday but changed her pleas to guilty before proceedings began. Thomas Bowen has been granted unconditional bail ahead of her sentencing hearing on Dec. 16.
In a witness statement read out in court, and reported on by the BBC, Farage said “this incident caused me concern, as I have only been going about my job” and trying to “have as much public engagement as possible.”
He added: “I’m saddened that this has happened at a public campaign.”
The Reform UK leader was also pelted with coffee cups that same month while campaigning in Barnsley. The perpetrator of that attack was handed a suspended prison sentence.
Since entering parliament, Farage has not held in-person constituency surgeries, a fixture of British politics. He has said he is not “allowing the public to flow through the door with their knives in their pockets.”