Nigel Farage has hit back at Boris Johnson after the former prime minister labelled him “morally repugnant” over comments he made about the war in Ukraine.
The Reform UK leader accused Mr Johnson of “hypocrisy” as he brandished a copy of a newspaper front page from 2016 that read: “Boris blames EU for war in Ukraine”.
Appearing on top of a campaign bus in Maidstone, Kent, Mr Farage pointed out that the former London mayor once blamed Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014 on policies in Brussels.
The Reform leader was speaking after comments he made last week – when he claimed the West and NATO “provoked” the Ukraine conflict that began more than two years ago – generated a strong backlash.
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Mr Farage told the BBC that he had been saying since the fall of the Berlin Wall there would be a war in Ukraine due to the “ever-eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union”.
He said those actions had given Vladimir Putin a reason to tell the Russian people “they’re coming for us again” and go to war.
Mr Farage was also challenged in the interview about his previous comments about the Russian president, whom he said he “admired” as a political operator – although he said the war was “of course” Mr Putin’s “fault”.
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