Nigel Farage gave a damning verdict on an overhaul of the EU's migration system.

The former Ukip leader said he warned Brussels when he was an MEP that the bloc would be "headed for disaster" if it allows anyone who enters to stay.

He predicted that little will change under the new rules and that "this idea of EU unity and solidarity is going to collapse".

It comes as the European Parliament today voted through reforms after years of division over the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.

Speaking on his GB News show, Mr Farage said: "A big day in Strasbourg today in the European Parliament a big vote on the EU migration pact.

"Now this problem afflicted the EU back in 2015 as large numbers of young people started to cross the Mediterranean.

"I was there in the parliament but I warned them if the EU asylum policy means that anybody that sets foot on EU soil is allowed to stay you will be headed for a disaster. Well of course no one listened to me.

"Today the parliament has passed a series of measures that basically say still anyone that comes, whether it's across the sea or through the eastern land border, will be allowed to stay. Last year one million people came into the EU from outside.

"Basically what it's saying is that through solidarity member states will share the burden for those that come across the water or come through the land borders and if you don't take your quota you will be fined €20,000 for every migrant you refuse to take.

"Now it passed in the European Parliament, albeit not by very big margins. Folks I promise you this idea of EU unity and solidarity is going to collapse."

The new pact will scrap the rule requiring migrants to apply for asylum in the first country through which they enter the bloc.

Countries unwilling to take migrants from other countries will instead be able to pay the EU €20,000 per person.

But Hungary and Poland have vowed not to agree to accept migrants despite the rules.

Roberta Metsola, the European parliament president, wrote on X: “History made. We have delivered a robust legislative framework on how to deal with migration and asylum in the EU.

"It has been more than 10 years in the making. But we kept our word. A balance between solidarity and responsibility. This is the European way.”