Tories compare Nigel Farage to Jeremy Corbyn over Ukraine war
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Speaking during a phone-in on LBC radio, Farage took issue with the sympathy shown to Zelenskyy after he  and his vice-president, JD Vance, on Friday, with his Washington visit cut short.

“I think president Zelenskyy was very unwise to tell the Americans what would happen to them if they didn’t back him,” Farage said. “I think it was unwise. Sure, Vance and Trump bit back. But I think in diplomatic terms Zelenskyy played it very badly.”

Asked if Trump and Vance had been right to treat Zelenskyy as they did, Farage replied: “I wouldn’t expect a guest to be rude to me in my own house, absolutely not. I would expect a guest to treat me with respect. Doesn’t mean for a minute that Vance and Trump – I’m not defending what they did.”

Bannon was, Farage argued, “taking the mickey” out of Elon Musk, a current Trump aide, who  at Trump’s inauguration in January.

“Are they Nazi salutes? I don’t think they are for a moment,” Farage said. Asked what they were, Farage called them “very unwise”. He added: “They’re not really Nazi salutes, because they’re out to the side and not in front … Do I think Musk’s a Nazi? No.”

Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, said: “Nigel Farage is once again showing his true colours as Trump’s own spokesman here in Britain. Zelenskyy showed courage and integrity in that room – in stark contrast to Farage’s cowardly approach of licking Trump’s boots.”



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David Taylor, the  MP for Hemel Hempstead, said: “It’s telling that when the PM announced the essential uplift in defence spending, not a single member of Reform was there to ask a question.

“Farage is not fit to comment on Zelenskyy’s actions. The former appears constantly absent while the latter has fought not just for Ukraine’s future, but for ours here in the UK.”
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