Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has claimed that those who supported remaining in the European Union could not be truly patriotic.
The comments come after Keir Starmer claimed in his St George's Day speech that Labour is the "patriotic party."
In an exclusive interview with The People's Channel, Farage pointed out that he did not believe that a party is "patriotic" if it did not vote for Brexit.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: "I never understood how you could call yourself patriotic and, at the same time, be happy to hand away chunks of self-control to a bunch of old men in Brussels, people you can't even vote for.
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"I could never understand it. Now, to be fair, there were those who said, No we believe it's in our national interest, and if at any point we want to change it, we can.
"But let’s put it this way: A lot of people who truly believed in the European project, and it was never more than about 20 per cent of the population, were concentrated in Westminster and among the political class.
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"Many of those who supported the European Union also believed in global governance. They didn’t really believe in us as a country. And by definition, I think that’s unpatriotic.
"I wouldn’t apply that to the next 30-odd per cent of the population who simply thought our interests were better served by being in rather than out.
"But at the core of it, at the absolute core, you have people like Edward Heath and others who believed that the existence of nation-states caused World War I and World War II.
"So their thinking was: if you effectively get rid of the nation-state, we’ll live in peace forever. That’s what they believed.
But what they misunderstood was a much more important philosophical point, which is this: Nation-states that are democratic don’t go to war with each other.
"There is not a single example of a mature democracy fighting another.
"So what we should have pushed for after 1945 was strong democracy within nations.
"Nations cooperating in trade and all the rest of it but not surrendering national control."
Keir Starmer said it is time to "reclaim" our flag GETTY Starmer has used his St George's Day speech to launch a direct attack on Reform UK, branding them "a bunch of moaners without any answers".
The Prime Minister's comments came during a reception at Downing Street to celebrate England's St George's Day.
The war of words intensifies as voters prepare to head to the polls next week to elect more than 1,600 councillors across 23 English councils, along with six mayors.
Farage has recently claimed Reform's tanks are "on the lawns of the Red Wall" in Labour's northern heartlands.
