Nigel Farage skewers Albania’s Brexit-hating PM and demands ‘take all your criminals back’ after dig at Britain

"The Albanian Prime Minister slags us off for Brexit and says Britain is 'in a dark place, looking for places to dump migrants'," Nigel said.

He added that Rama claimed "much of what we say post-Brexit has become 'totally unacceptable, totally ridiculous, totally shameful'."

Nigel dismissed the Albanian leader as "this giant of a man" who leads Albania as its socialist premier whilst criticising Britain's immigration policies.

Rama's criticism of Britain emerged during an interview with The Guardian, where he warned that Sir Keir Starmer's plan to send failed asylum seekers abroad demonstrates that post-Brexit Britain is in "a very dark place".

The Albanian Prime Minister said Britain was "looking for places to dump migrants" - a concept he claimed would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

"It's one of those things that 10 years ago would simply have not been imaginable… that Britain would look for places to dump immigrants," Rama stated.

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He argued that Brexit had fundamentally altered British public discourse, saying: "Eighty per cent of the things that are said, or are written, or are accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today's Britain are things that [before Brexit] would have been totally unacceptable, totally ridiculous, totally shameful."

Nigel accused Rama of hypocrisy, pointing to Albania's own negotiations to accept migrants from other nations.

"How he can criticise us when he spent months negotiating with the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni," Nigel said, referring to discussions about Albania taking Mediterranean migrants from Italy.

"He'd agreed to take large numbers of their cross-Mediterranean migrants," Nigel continued, though he acknowledged that "in the end, he didn't take that many, but he had those negotiations."

The Reform leader concluded his attack with a direct challenge to the Albanian Prime Minister: "I tell you what, Mr Rama, did you know one in 50 Albanians in Britain are in prison? So show some goodwill and take them all back tomorrow, because this is hypocrisy."

Rama's comments came approximately one month after Sir Keir Starmer visited Albania's capital, Tirana, to discuss establishing "return hubs" for failed asylum seekers as part of efforts to tackle small boat crossings in the English Channel.

During that visit, Rama rejected the possibility of Albania hosting one of Britain's proposed hubs, maintaining his consistent stance on the issue.

The Albanian leader insisted his criticism was not aimed specifically at Starmer, whom he described as "a very decent and delightful person".

Rama revealed he had previously rejected similar proposals under both Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson's administrations.

"The fact that today it's not just imaginable, it's happening, is not because of Keir Starmer or Rishi Sunak doing something outrageous; it's because of the country being in a very dark place," Rama explained.