Farage, who has long been accused of being a Putin apologist, tells BBC Moscow was given excuse by EU and Nato eastern expansion
Nigel Farage told Nick Robinson he had warned the European parliament in 2014 that there would be war in Ukraine.Nigel Farage told Nick Robinson he had warned the European parliament in 2014 that there would be war in Ukraine.
Speaking to BBC’s Panorama on Friday evening, Farage also said Brexit would have benefited the UK economically if he had been running the country, and that many of the Reform candidates criticised for saying offensive things had been “stitched up in the most extraordinary way”., Farage said he disliked the Russian president personally but “admired him as a political operator” because of the extent of his control over Russia.
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats have long accused Farage of being an apologist for the Russian president. Asked why exports in goods had not similarly benefited, Farage blamed net zero policies, saying they had “de-industrialised Britain”. On the economic effects of Brexit, he said: “If you put me in charge it’d be very, very different, but of course they didn’t do that did they?”
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