Boris savages Farage over Zelensky spat

What is Nigel Farage up to? The Reform leader has doubled down over the weekend on his claim that the west helped provoke Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Following his comments to the BBC on Friday, he then wrote a piece in the Telegraph on Saturday arguing that ‘What I have been saying for the past ten years is that the west has played into Putin’s hands, giving him the excuse to do what he wanted to do anyway.’ It prompted a torrent of cross-party criticism, with both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer calling his remarks ‘disgraceful.’

Such was the storm unleashed by Farage that even Kyiv’s leaders now seem to be getting involved. The Mail on Sunday splashed on claims that a source in President Zelensky’s office has accused Farage of being infected by the ‘virus of Putinism’. The Ukrainian presidency told the BBC that it will not be putting out an official statement on Farage’s comments.