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Farage says he would ‘never, ever defend’ Putin as he ramps up row with Johnson

Source: PA Wire

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said he would “never, ever defend” Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he ramped up his row with former prime minister Boris Johnson.

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.

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