Former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage blasted the U.S. Open tennis tournament for its COVID policy that prevents Novak Djokovic from playing in the summer event because he has not been vaccinated. Farage told "Fox & Friends First" Thursday COVID restrictions are "no longer about" public health. 

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NIGEL FARAGE: This is no longer about health. It's about control. It's about government deciding how you should live your life, what you should and should not do. … We all know when this virus first came into view two years ago, it was a frightening thing. We've now learned how to deal with it. We've got drugs to deal with it. And it doesn't matter how many times you are vaccinated, you can still catch COVID. As, of course, the Fauci case this morning proves. So it's about control. It's about the big state. And we really must fight back much harder against this.

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