British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage furiously condemned the Metropolitan Police‘s arrest of Irish comedy writer and transgender rights critic Graham Linehan.

Linehan, the writer behind sitcoms Father Ted and The IT Crowd, said he was arrested by five police officers at London’s Heathrow Airport after landing in the United Kingdom on a flight from Arizona. Linehan wrote in his Substack post that the officers said he was arrested over three X posts that contained anti-transgender rhetoric.