The Glasgow Times spoke to the Prime Minister when he was in Garthamlock, visiting the Greater Easterhouse Supporting Hands project.
He reacted to the comments by the Reform UK leader, who said this week one in three pupils in Glasgow don’t speak English as their first language, which he branded the “cultural smashing of Glasgow.”
The Prime Minister said: “He’s a disgrace. He’s a toxic, divisive disgrace.
“All he wants to do is tear communities apart.
“In Glasgow, the diversity, the compassion is celebrated. “
The Prime Minister said Farage picking on children was “poor” and a deflection from questions his own party doesn’t want to answer.
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He added: “I think it’s particularly poor that he’s reached right into children now to start that divide.
“All he’s interested in is the politics of grievance and the politics of division and he’s doing it to distract because what he doesn’t want to be asked about is the comments that he’s made in the past, which he can’t give a proper explanation for.
“What he doesn’t want to be asked about is why is he not doing an inquiry into his party, into pro-Russian links.
“I’ll tell you why he doesn’t want to do that, because they’re a pro-Putin party.”
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He added: “They’ve shown their colours in Glasgow by saying, the first thing we want to do is tear communities apart, and that is all that they offer.”
Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour leader, accompanied the Prime Minister on the visit.
He added: “As a son of Glasgow, how dare he use Glasgow’s kids to spread his own poison?
“The people of Glasgow have seen the likes of Nigel Farage before and utterly rejected them and they’ll do the same again.”
Earlier, First Minister, John Swinney had said that the UK Home Office was the “root cause” of the extra pressure of the housing crisis in Glasgow with the high number of ex asylum seekers with leave to remain applying as homeless in the city.
The Prime Minister said the SNP didn’t take responsibility.
He said: “John Swinney always points the finger at somebody else. Yeah, because he never takes responsibility for his own record.
“We’ve got an election coming up in May. They’ve been in power for a very, very long time.
“What he needs to do is explain what his record is. I don’t hear him going out there saying, vote SNP because we’ve done all these things, because he can’t say that.”
When pressed on what action the UK Government would take, he added: “What we need to do is to make sure the claims are processed, that we don’t have to have the argument about where people are housed, because we’re not waiting for that.
” There’s a legacy of the last government for far too long for these cases to be determined in the first place. That is the root of this particular problem.”
Sarwar added: “But also because we’re clearing the backlogs and getting faster decisions, surely as someone that claims he supports those that are seeking asylum and refuge, he should be happy that people’s claims are being processed more quickly.”