NIGEL Farage will vote against deploying any British peacekeeping troops to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire deal.
The Reform said Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to station boots on the ground would leave the UK “completely exposed” at home.
The PM yesterday promised MPs a say on his commitment to establish military bases with France to police any peace deal between Volodomyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin.
Under an agreement struck on Tuesday, the United States would assume responsibility for overall monitoring of a ceasefire but not deploy on land.
Speaking after the PM’s promise to get Parliament’s approval, Mr Farage told Times Radio: “I would vote against.
“We neither have the manpower nor the equipment to go into an operation that clearly has no ending timeline.”
He added: “If the coalition of the willing was eight, ten, a dozen countries and we could rotate battalions through then I might well say, ‘Yeah, absolutely let’s do it.’ As it is, it will be us and the French completely exposed for an unlimited period of time.”
Sir Keir yesterday defended his commitment with Emmanuel Macron to send peacekeeping soldiers to Ukraine should a ceasefire be negotiated.
He told the Commons: “The number will be determined in accordance with our military plans, which we are drawing up and looking to other members to support. So the number I will put before the House before we were to deploy.”
While a friend of Donald Trump, Mr Farage did condemn the President’s threats to annex Greenland from Denmark, branding any such move “outrageous”.
