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Nigel Farage has condemned Thursday night's terror attack in Nice but insists slack European Union border security is to blame.

Speaking with Good Morning Britain's Ranvir Singh and Kate Garraway the outgoing UKIP leader was involved in a heated conversation about racial tensions in France and what he made of the events.

Farage - who was one of the main voices behind the Brexit campaign - said the attacks were "horrendous" before saying ISIS are using the refugee crisis to exploit EU checkpoints.

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"This is a horrendous event," said Farage, as he stressed his concern.

"Obviously I need to say it's a horrendous event, but unfortunately not isolated."

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When asked about what he thought of the reasons behind the attack, Farage was clear in his views.

He said: "I've tried to avoid things like this, what I've said is that if you have sensible border controls you will have good relationships between all communities.

"The big problem in much of France is last year, 1.8m people came into the EU without one of them being security checked.

"ISIS said a year ago that they would use the migrant refugee crisis as a means of flooding the continent with their jihadis - that's the problem."

Speaking about the racial tensions in France, Farage continued: "We had the events in Paris. We've seen large cells in Brussels that have been arrested over the last couple of weeks.

"The argument that I've made is that we should all co-operate together."

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France has been hit by a new "monstrous" terror attack, with 80 people killed and more than 100 injured by a truck driving through crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice.