The leader of the Reform party defends that “the West has provoked the war” in Ukraine
June 22 () –
The United Kingdom Home Secretary, James Cleverly, accused this Friday the leader of the Reform party, the populist Nigel Farage, of supporting the Russian Government’s arguments in favor of the invasion of Ukraine.
“Simply, Farage echoing (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s vile justification for the brutal invasion of Ukraine,” Cleverly criticized in a post on his account on the social network X.
The aforementioned publication was accompanied by statements by Farage in which he stated that “the West has caused the war in Ukraine”, words spoken during an interview for the BBC in which he indicated that “of course it is his fault”, but that “has used what we have done as an excuse” and that “we caused this war.”
“I stood up before the European Parliament in 2014 and said, quote, ‘There will be a war in Ukraine’. Why? It was obvious to me that the increasing eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving rise to this man (Vladimir Putin) a reason to tell the Russian people ‘they are coming for us again’ and to go to war,” Farage argued in one of his interventions.
“I am the only person in British politics who predicted what would happen and, of course, everyone said I was a pariah for daring to suggest it,” added the populist politician, ensuring that he “dislikes” Putin, but that “He admires him as a political operator because he has managed to gain control of the management of Russia.”
Nigel 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 Reform party, but also with his candidacy for the next 4th of July elections.
This announcement came just ten 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 has assured that he will return 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 to almost four million voters.
The United Kingdom will hold general elections on July 4, under a preview announced on May 22 by the country’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, who until then had limited himself to publicly ensuring that the vote would take place in the second half. of the year.
With less than a month to go before the election in the United Kingdom, the polls continue to show favor for 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.
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