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Nigel Farage insisted Rishi Sunak's defence spending boost "proves my point" over his bombshell general election prediction.
The former Ukip leader has tipped Britain to go to the polls this summer rather than the autumn.
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He said the Prime Minister's pledge today to spend 2.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence by 2030 had left him more convinced of an early ballot.
Speaking on his GB News show, Mr Farage said: "It's good news, there are many involved in defence who think this is a good sign. But why now? Any guesses folks? I'll tell you why now because there's a general election coming.
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"They're beginning to say all of the right things having not done any of them for the last 14 years and we're all supposed to believe that everything now is all going to be ok. Well, I guess you may say at home better late than never.
"But it all adds to what I was saying last night that I now begin to believe that the balance of probabilities is now more in favour of an election at the end of June or in early July than it is in October or November this year.
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"And that speech today by Sunak very much proves my point."
Mr Sunak said an extra ￡75 billion in defence spending over the next six years will put the UK arms industry on a "war footing".
He warned the world was "the most dangerous it has been since the end of the Cold War".
Mr Farage on Monday predicted the PM will call a general election this summer after he struck a tough tone in a Downing Street press conference on his Rwanda plan before legislation aimed at getting the policy off the ground cleared Parliament.
The Brexit architect said: "I've rather changed my view today on something quite significant.
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"If you'd asked me first thing this morning before that speech, whether there would be a summer general election, not an autumn general election, I’d have said, ‘Well, I reckon it's two-thirds on it being an autumn election, a third on it being a summer election’.
“I have now shifted my view today. I would now say it's two-thirds likely that we're going to have a general election at the end of June or early July, however, well or badly the Conservatives may do in the elections coming up next week.
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“Frankly, the reason I think there's going to be an early election is because you can't keep upping the ante on stopping the boats and sending people to Rwanda and keep failing.
"He must know, his advisers must know, that all the while the Human Rights Act is there in law there will be lawyers on behalf of people who are going to be deported, who will go to the courts and British judges will find in their favour and not allow them to go to Rwanda.
"So rather than wait, for what seems to be his flagship policy to disintegrate, he'll call a general election before making promises that he can't deliver. That's my thought.”
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