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UK Minister Casts Doubt on Nigel Farage’s Security Commitment Over Ukraine Troop Remarks
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A senior UK cabinet minister accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, one of the party’s five MPs, of “parroting Kremlin lines” after Farage said he would vote against any British plan to deploy troops in Ukraine, according to The Guardian on January 8.
The dispute followed a declaration by Britain and France that they would be ready to deploy multinational forces to Ukraine after a peace deal, as part of wider security guarantees designed to deter any renewed Russian attack.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said Members of Parliament (MPs) would debate and vote before any UK troops were sent on peacekeeping duties.
Farage, the leader of Reform UK and one of the party’s five MPs, made his comments in a Times Radio interview after missing prime minister’s questions in parliament.
“It would be a very interesting vote. I would vote against,” he said. “We neither have the manpower nor the equipment to go into an operation that clearly has no ending timeline.” Farage added that he might support a deployment if it involved a larger group of countries able to rotate forces, but said that otherwise Britain and France would be “completely exposed for an unlimited period of time.”
Pat McFadden, a cabinet minister, said Farage’s stance raised questions about his commitment to national security, arguing that any deployment would be part of a broader European guarantee.
“This guarantee is not just for Ukraine, it’s for the whole of Europe,” McFadden said, adding that it was “in the British national interest” and “concerning” to see politicians oppose it.
Labour, which has repeatedly attacked Farage over his record on Russia and Ukraine, said his position amounted to the “behaviour of Putin’s puppet,” and pointed to the November jailing of Nathan Gill, Reform’s former leader in Wales, for taking bribes to make statements in favor of Russia while he was a member of the European parliament.
Meanwhile, it was reported that European and UK leaders proposed a broad package of security, military, and economic commitments for Ukraine under a peace deal framework, including establishing multinational forces coordinated by European countries with US participation.
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