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Nigel Farage defended Donald Trump for promoting far-right hate group Britain First online this morning, saying the reaction to his tweets were “out of all proportion."

And the former Ukip leader and Fox News contributor said the idea that ‘hate and division’ were not British values was “out of touch.”

It came amid calls for the President’s state visit to the UK to be cancelled - and rumours he is set to make a ‘working visit’ to London in February.

He sparked outrage on Wednesday by retweeting a string of anti-Muslim videos posted by Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen. At least two of the three videos were misleadingly titled.

He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr: “Do I think those tweets were in good taste? Not particularly, no.

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“But the point is that the level of outrage from the liberal elite in this country is out of all proportion with what happened here.”

He added: “Was the story about ISIS throwing people off buildings fake news? No. It wasn’t, it was true.”

This is untrue.

The video was filmed in Egypt in 2013. It’s understood to portray members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi, enraged that he had been overthrown. ISIS were not operational in Egypt in 2013. The men involved were later put to death.

Also appearing on the programme, Labour supporter Ayesha Hazarika said: “Just remember as Jo Cox lay dying, the scumbag who executed her shouted out the words “Britain First.”

She added: “Donald Trump is a racist, he’s misogynistic and he’s Islamophobic. He peddles in stirring up hate and division. That might be something you agree with, but that is not what British values are in this country.

Farage interrupted, repeatedly saying: “You’re out of touch, you’re out of touch.”

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Farage also repeated his claim to have “done more than anybody in this country to stop the rise of the far-right in Britain,” by giving BNP voters someone else to vote for.

And he repeated President’s Trump’s widely condemned claim that there were “extremists” on “both sides” of the Charlottesville protest, during which far-right groups marched with torches yelling “Jews will not replace us” and a counter protester was mown down and killed when a car was driven into pedestrians.

Later in the programme, Tory MP Jacob rees-Mogg dismissed outrage over Trump retweeting Britain First to his 44 million followers because Twitter is a “trivial medium.”

He said it was “inevitable” people would share “appalling content because it is such an unimportant medium.”