Nigel Farage claimed the Tories were seeking to use his comments about Ukraine and Vladimir Putin as a “useful distraction” from the party’s general election gambling scandal.
The Reform leader joked that the Tories now seemed to “resemble something of an organised betting ring” as he delivered a speech in Maidstone.
He said: “The sheer level of greed and stupidity that leads people right at the heart of government, who know when the election is going to be called, to put on bets is astonishing but perhaps sums up the self-entitled view that this Conservative Party has after 14 years in government.”
Mr Farage said the current handful of claims against Tory figures which are being looked at by the Gambling Commission would be the “tip of the iceberg” as he predicted “this scandal will get worse”.
Mr Farage sparked a backlash from his political opponents last week after he argued the “ever-eastward expansion of Nato and the EU” had given Putin a reason to justify his invasion.
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Source: telegraph.co.uk