Farage says he would ‘never, ever defend’ Putin as he ramps up row with Johnson
Top Stories Tamfitronics At a campaign rally in Kent on Monday, Mr Farage unveiled a blown-up poster of the i newspaper’s front page from May 10 2016 with the headline “Boris blames EU for war in Ukraine”.On Friday Mr Farage told the BBC’s The Panorama Interviews programme that “we provoked this war”, in reference to countries in eastern Europe signing up to Nato and the European Union, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Writing in the Telegraph on Saturday, he urged readers not to “blame” him for “telling the truth about Putin’s war”.Mr Johnson shared the article on X, formerly Twitter, calling Mr Farage’s views “morally repugnant”.Referring to the Telegraph article, he wrote: “This is nauseating historical drivel and more Kremlin propaganda.”In Kent on Monday, Mr Farage said he had been “more far-sighted” in predicting a war...
