Leo Varadkar should consider those seeing their lives destroyed by continuous lockdown before criticising Britain’s reopening, according to Nigel Farage.

The former Brexit Party leader was reacting after the Tánaiste said the UK’s Freedom Day plan was ‘too risky’ and warned that it could have a spill-over effect in Ireland.

Mr Farage told Kieran  that it is now time for countries to learn to live with COVID-19 – warning that lockdown has led us to a point where “the cure is now worse than the disease.”