Syria’s renewed civil war will trigger waves of young male migrants trying to cross the Channel to Britain, Nigel Farage has said.

European politicians, including Italy’s foreign minister, have also warned the fresh hostilities and capture of Aleppo by rebels could lead to a second migrant crisis.

More than a million asylum seekers arrived in Europe in 2015 after the civil war first broke out in Syria in 2011.

Mr Farage said the EU was still unable to protect its borders, despite the crisis nine years ago leading to a reform of the bloc’s asylum rules.

The Reform UK leader told Sir Keir Starmer the UK had to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which he has blamed for stopping migrant deportations.

“We must protect ourselves from the stupidity of the EU and leave the ECHR or face yet more waves of young men coming to the UK,” Mr Farage told The Telegraph.

His comments come after Peter Ford, Britain’s former ambassador to Syria, told LBC that the surprise attack by Islamist forces against dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime could trigger a “flood” of refugees.