UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage speaks to party members | Wiktor Dabkowski/ Getty Images Nigel Farage: Archbishop willing to ‘turn a blind eye’ to Cologne sex attacks UKIP leader and head of the Church of England continue their war of words.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage on Wednesday said the head of the global Anglican church was willing to "turn a blind eye" to incidents such as the mass sexual assaults in Cologne.

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, on Tuesday accused Farage of racism for suggesting that migrants from outside the EU could come to the U.K. and sexually assault women, as reportedly occurred in the German city on New Year’s Eve.

The Euroskeptic MEP was unrepentant on Wednesday morning, telling the Good Morning Britain TV show that a Cologne-style incident could happen in Britain if people vote to remain in the EU at the June 23 referendum.

Farage also attacked the archbishop, saying ""he hasn't read what I’ve said, he hasn’t studied what I’ve said."

"This is the archbishop who, in his New Year’s message ... didn’t even make any mention of what had gone wrong in Cologne. It would appear to me he’s one of those people who’s prepared to turn a blind eye," Farage said.

Welby is head of the Church of England and the world’s Anglicans, representing 85 million people.