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1/ Surprise! When Farage does answer questions, nearly every word is a falsehood. Let's break this clip down.
2/ Farage first admits that he had advocated a deal with the EU, but then rejects Marr's assertion that he advocated a deal during the referendum. Marr has clips that contradict Farage's latter refutation, but there's even more evidence: the 2015 UKIP manifesto. 
3/ Farage claims Barnier and the EU offered May a free trade agreement, but she didn't ask for it and went for a close relationship instead. The timing in his explanation is confusing, but anyway this is a false claim as it confuses withdrawal agreement and future relationship.
4/ Here's the EU negotiating guidelines from April 2017, which it's stuck to since. No future relationship negotiations until after Brexit day. This is why the withdrawal agreement has a transition period, to maintain trade and other relations while those talks are underway.
5/ Although Farage claims twice that May did not ask for a free trade agreement, here's her Lancaster House speech which shows that his claims are false. The government subsequently agreed to a transition period, but its long-term objectives haven't changed.
6/ In the historic clips which Marr shows, Farage states "Norway chooses its own" relationship with the EU, and that the UK will also "choose our own" relationship with the EU. Both claims are nonsense. Both sides have to agree. The EU is not a shop. Neither is the US, India etc.
7/ Farage repeats a consistent claim that the withdrawal agreement is not a "deal", but a "new European treaty". If he is trying to imply that it's a Treaty amendment, that's false. The UK would be a non-EU country from the day the withdrawal agreement entered into force.
8/ Farage claims that the EU would be "banging the door down" for a deal in a no deal Brexit scenario. We can't be certain about future claims, but we do know that the UKIP manifesto forecast about the EU's actions so far ("very short period of time") turned out to be wrong.
9/ Overall, Farage's explanation of his no deal position over time is confusing and contradicted by evidence. His claims about May and the EU positions are false or misleading. His forecasts of EU behaviour have been consistently wrong. The man is a charlatan. //
