\n The Glasgow Times spoke to the Prime Minister when he was in Garthamlock, visiting the Greater Easterhouse Supporting Hands project.\n<\/p>\n
\n He reacted to the comments by the Reform UK<\/a> leader, who said this week one in three pupils in Glasgow don\u2019t speak English as their first language, which he branded the \u201ccultural smashing of Glasgow.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n The Prime Minister said: \u201cHe’s a disgrace. He’s a toxic, divisive disgrace.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cAll he wants to do is tear communities apart.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cIn Glasgow, the diversity, the compassion is celebrated. \u201c\n<\/p>\n \n The Prime Minister said Farage picking on children was \u201cpoor\u201d and a deflection from questions his own party doesn\u2019t want to answer.\n<\/p>\n \n READ NEXT:<\/strong>Home Office branded ‘root cause’ of housing crisis in Glasgow by John Swinney<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \n He added: \u201cI think it’s particularly poor that he’s reached right into children now to start that divide.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cAll 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.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cWhat he doesn’t want to be asked about is why is he not doing an inquiry into his party, into pro-Russian links.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cI’ll tell you why he doesn’t want to do that, because they’re a pro-Putin party.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n READ NEXT:<\/strong>Nigel Farage accused of ‘racially coded attack ‘ using Glasgow children<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \n 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.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n Anas Sarwar<\/a>, Scottish Labour<\/a> leader, accompanied the Prime Minister on the visit.\n<\/p>\n \n He added: \u201cAs a son of Glasgow, how dare he use Glasgow’s kids to spread his own poison?\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cThe people of Glasgow have seen the likes of Nigel Farage before and utterly rejected them and they’ll do the same again.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n \u00a0Earlier, First Minister, John Swinney<\/a> had said that the UK Home Office<\/a> was the \u201croot cause\u201d 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.\n<\/p>\n