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Defence rows break out as Cleverley accuses Farage of ‘echoing Putin’

Source: PA Media

Nigel Farage has been accused of “echoing Putin’s vile justification for the brutal invasion of Ukraine”.

Home Secretary James Cleverly made the charge after Reform UK’s leader said “we provoked this war”, drawing a link between Nato and European Union expansion in recent decades and the conflict in eastern Europe.

Appearing on the Panorama Interviews on BBC One on Friday, Mr Farage faced questions about his opinion of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

He replied: “I

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