Nigel Farage warns Keir Starmer he faces ‘uproar’ if he ploughs on with Ukraine plan without vote: ‘I’m very nervous’

Keir Starmer would face “uproar” if he deploys troops in Ukraine without a vote in Parliament, Nigel Farage has told GB News.

The Reform UK leader spoke to the People’s Channel’s political editor Christopher Hope about the prime minister’s plan to put boots on the ground in the war-stricken nation as part of a peacekeeping force.

A virtual call with leaders from 26 Western countries was held on Wednesday, along with two EU leaders and NATO’s secretary general after Volodymyr Zelensky accepted a 30-day interim ceasefire agreement.

The so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ may have been drawing up plans to bolster Ukraine’s defence with a peacekeeping force, which Russia has repeatedly suggested it would not accept.

Nigel told Chopper the idea has made him “nervous” as he called for serious consideration.

“The fact we’re having talks, albeit talks about talks, between Trump and Putin is a good thing”, he said.

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“The worry is, Putin must not be seen to have come out of this with a big victory. This will be difficult.

“I am very nervous about putting British troops into Ukraine, and I will tell you why. Troops were put into Korea at the end of the Korean War.

“71 years later, there are still 25,000 American troops in Korea. If we’re going to make a commitment to Ukraine, number one, the army isn’t big enough.

“Number two, how long is it for? What are the rules of engagement? If Keir Starmer was to do this without a vote in Parliament, there would be uproar.”

Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel told GB News earlier that any troop deployment in Ukraine should require parliamentary backing, but said David Lammy refused to confirm whether this would be the case.

She told Chopper: “We’re asking the questions. We have been told military planners will be meeting this week.

“Much hinges on the discussions between America and Russia, and Ukraine. We will be asking questions of the Government. We think it’s too premature to be making big commitments.

“We’ve heard a lot of the coalition of the willing, we hear more countries want to join but we know nothing about what deployment would look like, what it consists of, how our armed forces would be protected, how long they will be there.

“We need answers to many of these questions before we do anything else.”

It comes ahead of crunch talks between President Trump and his Russian counterpart about the US-Ukraine plan for a 30-day ceasefire.

Putin has said he agrees in principle to a ceasefire but has put a series of conditions on any peace plan.

The US president said Washington and Moscow have already begun discussing “dividing up certain assets” between Ukraine and Russia as part of a deal to end the conflict, which could include Mr Putin being handed land and power plants by Kyiv.

Such a move would cause unease in Europe, being seen as a reward for Russia’s invasion of its neighbour.

Asked if the UK would be prepared to accept Russia being handed sovereignty over the Crimean Peninsula, which it annexed in 2014, the Prime Minister’s spokesman said: “We’ve always been clear that how, and on what terms, this war comes to an end can only be decided by negotiations with Ukraine at the heart of them.”