Labour MP Kate Osborne believes that Reform UK and the broadcaster GB News have contributed to the hatred that led to the vehicle attack on the Pride celebration in Berlin.

Osborne, who represents Jarrow and Gateshead East, claims that the party and the broadcaster “spread nonsense and broadcast content and language that attack and vilify the LGBT+ community”, GB News reports.

Osborne also argued that this has contributed to “a pattern spreading across Europe”, in which online hate acts as “a catalyst for physical violence in the real world”.

“This is why Pride still matters, and why we must all stand up clearly for minorities and condemn hatred,” Osborne said.

The Berlin attack was carried out by “Abdul Ballout”, described as a dangerous Islamist, who drove a van into the crowd and attacked revellers with a machete. One person was killed and 29 injured. He had previously attempted to join ISIS and travelled to Lebanon in 2025, and was arrested when he returned to Berlin.

Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick dismissed Osborne’s remarks as “insane”, writing that “the Left will do literally anything to avoid confronting the Islamist threat”.

Labour MP David Taylor also distanced himself from the claim, warning that Islamist extremists “hate our way of life” regardless of Western foreign policy.

In Germany, the attack has prompted renewed cross-party calls for a tougher response to radical Islamism. Bundestag Vice-President Omid Nouripour of the Greens said that Germany must stand firm against “murderous Islamism”, while CDU politician Daniel Peters argued that ISIS supporters “must not be allowed to walk free in Germany”. AfD leader Tino Chrupalla stated that the country would not “allow religious extremists to divide us through violence and intolerance”, and the party has previously linked terrorist attacks in Germany to Angela Merkel’s refugee policy.

The attack is the latest in a series of vehicle attacks in Germany over the past decade. In February this year, a rejected Afghan asylum seeker injured 30 people, including a two-year-old boy, in Munich. In May, a man drove into a pedestrianised shopping area in Leipzig, killing two people. In 2016, the Tunisian national Anis Amri, whose asylum application had been rejected, hijacked a lorry and drove it into a Christmas market in Berlin.

Eleven people were killed before he was shot dead by police in Italy four days later.