UK anti-EU party head admires Putin for 'brilliant' Syria policy


  • World
  • Monday, 31 Mar 2014

LONDON (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin is the world leader who is most admired by the head of Britain's anti-European Union party because of the Russian president's "brilliant" handling of the Syria crisis, Nigel Farage said in an interview published on Monday.

When asked which leader he had most esteem for, Farage told the GQ magazine: "As an operator, but not as a human being, I would say Putin."

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