NIGEL Farage is responsible for causing the small boats crisis, Sir Keir Starmer claimed today.

The PM escalated his blazing row with the Reform chief as he declared Brexit is to blame for the onslaught of “Farage boats” in the channel.

Sir Keir said that before Britain divorced Brussels , returns agreements with the EU would enable illegal migrants to be sent packing.

He accused Mr Farage of scuppering those deals and holding sole responsibility for Britain’s broken borders.

The PM told GB News: “I would gently point out to Nigel Farage and others that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU, and he told the country it would make no difference if we left.

“He was wrong about that.

“These are ‘Farage boats’, in many senses, that are coming acro

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