The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunakcriticized the leader of the Reforma party, the far-right Nigel Faragefor saying that the West has caused the war in Ukraine, an argument “completely wrong” that “plays into his game” to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
“Putin is a man who deployed a nerve agent on the streets of this country, who is making deals with countries like North Korea, and this kind of appeasement is dangerous to national security, the security of our allies who depend on us, and only further emboldens Putin“Sunak declared to the network BBC.
“What Farage has said is completely wrong and only plays into Putin’s hands.”he added.
Also the UK Home Secretary, James Cleverlyaccused Farage this Friday of support the arguments of the Russian Government in favor of the invasion of Ukraine. “Simply, this is Farage echoing Putin’s vile justification for the brutal invasion of Ukraine”Cleverly criticized in a publication on his account on the social network X.
The aforementioned publication was accompanied by statements from Farage in which he stated that “The West has provoked war in Ukraine”, words spoken during an interview for the BBC in which he stated that “of course it’s your fault“, but what “has used what we have done as an excuse” and “we caused this war”.
“I stood up before the European Parliament in 2014 and said, quote, ‘There will be a war in Ukraine.’ Because? It was obvious to me that the increasing eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving this man (Vladimir Putin) a reason to tell the Russian people ‘they are coming for us again’ and to go to war. “Argued Farage in one of his interventions.
“I am the only person in British politics who predicted what would happen and, of course, everyone said that I was an outcast for daring to suggest it,” added the populist politician, ensuring that “dislike“Putin, but let him”admired as a political operator because he has managed to gain control of the management of Russia”.
Farage, one of the leaders of the campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, announced in early June his return to politics not only with his return to the leadership of the party. Reformbut also with his candidacy for the next July 4 elections.
This announcement came just 10 days after he assured that he would not run as a candidate in the parliamentary elections, which marked a radical change in his position and a return to the leadership of the party that he already led for two years between 2019 and 2021.
Farage assured that he is returning to politics “for the next five years” and that his main objective is for his party to get more votes than UKIP – a Eurosceptic formation that he himself led for years – in the 2015 elections, when he managed to convince almost four million voters.
The United Kingdom will hold general elections on July 4, under an advance announced on May 22 by the country’s prime minister, Rishi Sunakwhich until then had limited itself to publicly ensuring that the vote would take place in the second half of the year.
Less than a month before the election in the United Kingdom, the polls continue to smile at the Labor Party, which according to the latest polls could achieve a historic result in the next general elections with up to 425 seats in the House of Lords; while the Conservative Party maintains its downward trend and could achieve the worst result in more than a hundred years.
(With information from Europa Press)
