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During an interview, Nigel Farage explained that Leo Varadkar was behaving like Brussels by threatening dire consequences for the UK in the event of a no deal Brexit. The Irish prime minister has warned that a border may need to be constructed between Northern Ireland and Ireland in a worst-case scenario. Mr Farage said in the interview: “In years to come, there may need to be some checks but they don’t need to be done at a hard border.

All he seems to want to do is play the Brussels game of threatening the British Nigel Farage

“The second issue, of course, is tariffs if we don’t leave with a free trade deal “I have to say, I find it remarkable that the Taoiseach is not pushing for a free trade deal. “All he seems to want to do is play the Brussels game of threatening the British.” After this statement, the host began to argue with Mr Farage that she didn’t believe anybody was being threatened.

Nigel Farage argued that Leo Varadkar was threatening the UK with a hard Irish border

The Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and MEP Guy Verhofstadt responded to the LBC hosts Tweet of the interview. He said: “Brexiteers are solely responsible for the Irish border dilemma, they didn’t think or care about the consequences of their actions. “Varadkar and the whole EU are committed to fully safeguard the Good Friday Agreement, to make sure that violence never comes back again." One of the most polarising elements of Theresa May’s Brexit deal was the backstop and the Northern Ireland border issue. Many Brexiteers insisted that it tied the UK to the European Union indefinitely and was one of the core reasons that the Prime Minister’s deal was initially voted down.