Nigel Farage agrees Donald Trump must ‘take some blame’ for economic impact of Iran war

Marcus Donaldson
Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:06:55 +0000

Nigel Farage has agreed that President Donald Trump must “take some blame” for the economic fallout of the war with Iran.

The Reform UK leader addressed the issue after Keir Starmer said he was “fed up” with bills soaring because of the “actions of Putin or Trump across the world”.

Speaking to the press, Mr Farage said he was similarly “fed up” and sniped at Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s net-zero policies amid a “global crisis”.

However, he added that: “If Trump and Israel do stuff, it affects us. No doubt about that.”

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The Reform UK leader was then asked if he would assign “some of the blame for the economic impact of what's going on in the Middle East at the feet of Trump”.

“Yes,” he responded.

The Clacton MP then tempered the remark by acknowledging the justification for hostilities against the Islamic Republic.

He said: “I wouldn't have been very keen to see Iran with a nuclear weapon and using it against Israel.

“So you have to weigh all that up. You know, one up against the other."

Addressing the UK’s position on the conflict more broadly, the Reform UK leader said it was “not our finest hour”.

He added: “It took us three weeks and one day to send a single naval vessel to what is British sovereign territory. And that one is now in the dock.

“It seems to me that the Prime Minister, by vacillating over the course of the last few weeks, has upset the Americans, upset the Cypriots, and frankly, upset our great allies in the Gulf as well.”

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Moving on from international affairs, the Reform leader advised that the Prime Minister “looks closer to home”.

He despaired over “the highest industrial prices in the world, deindustrialisation on the most extraordinary scale and “a huge amount of self-inflicted harm”.

Mr Farage's comments come as the Prime Minister tours the Middle East following the beginning of a tense ceasefire between Iran, Israel and the United States.

While there, he admitted that: “I'm fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses' bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.”

However, Sir Keir also said that Britain's European allies need to do more in Nato after President Trump issued threats to pull out of the alliance.

He said: “We’re very strong supporters of Nato and I’ve been making the argument for some considerable time that we need to do more. It’s the single most effective military alliance the world has ever known.

“Do we Europeans need to do more? Yes, I’ve been making that argument for the best part of two years, to our European partners as much as anybody else. We continue to make that case and we will make that case.

“It is in America’s interests, it’s in European interests. Nato is a defensive alliance, which for decades has kept us much safer than we would otherwise have been."