In an interview on GB News, Farage said: ‘You should always take everything Donald Trump says seriously, you shouldn’t always take things Donald Trump says absolutely literally.
Nigel Farage has said Ukraine needs a ‘timeline for elections’ after Donald Trump derided Volodymyr Zelensky for not holding any while his country is at war.
In his appearance on GB News, Farage also said Keir Starmer’s comments that elections were suspended during the Second World War were incorrect, as a vote was held in July 1945.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Farage sounded like a ‘spokesman for Trump’ in his comments.
He added: ‘Nigel Farage has chosen to explain away Trump’s outrageous remarks about President Zelensky instead of doing the right thing and condemning them.