Nigel Farage has slammed Border Force after a Daily Express investigation exposed an Albanian TikTok and Instagram celebrity who promoted illegal ways to enter Britain.

Daily Express investigations editor Zak-Garner Purkis appeared on the Brexiteer’s GB News show on Wednesday night to discuss his recent reporting on Albanian celebrities who are mocking the UK, urging criminals to travel to Britain to “get rich” quick.

An outraged Mr Farage cried out: “We have a police force? We have a Border Force. What are they doing, Zak?”

The former Brexit Party leader and MEP blasted TikTok and Instagram for making money off the back of Kozak Braci’s social media exploits.

Mr Garner-Purkis told the GB News host that criminals are “laughing in the face of the police” by glorifying the production of illegal drugs in Britain online.

It comes after last week, Express.co.uk revealed how Kozak Braci, a popular Albanian social media star, has been promoting ways to enter the UK illegally to his hundreds of thousands of online followers.

The TikTok and Instagram personality also regularly gave tours of his cannabis farms in Britain, according to videos obtained by the Express – in which Braci detailed how drug workers can apparently make up to £6,000 per month.

Our six-month investigation also found that another one of Albania’s biggest online celebrities Aleks Visha rose to fame through live online tours of cannabis farms in the UK – where he boasted about criminal activities.

Former Home Secretary Priti Patel told the Express: “The British public will be disgusted by TikTok and Instagram for allowing criminals to promote their lifestyles and encourage others to come to Britain illegally to produce drugs.

“Material like this is wrong and social media companies must take responsibility to remove this content and to work with our law enforcement agencies to quickly identify the people producing this content so they can face the full force of the law.”

The Express traced Braci to a Communist-era housing block in Tirana to ask him why he made the videos promoting a criminal lifestyle in Britain. He claimed the cannabis farm tours were unplanned and he had stopped making the videos.

He asked: “In the very beginning I accepted lots of requests from people who wanted to join my live streams. How am I supposed to know?”

Braci also claimed to be making £25,000-a-month from his social media celebrity status, insisted his videos on UK drug production were “not popular” and he “didn’t like those livestreams”.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “We expect tech companies to have robust processes in place to swiftly remove illegal content.

“The Online Safety Act will introduce measures requiring platforms to identify and take down content relating to the sale of drugs online.”

Instagram‘s parent company Meta said in response to the Express investigation: “Buying, selling or soliciting drugs is not allowed on our platforms; our teams use a mix of technology and human review to remove this content as quickly as possible, and we work with the police and youth organisations to get better at detection.

“We’ve also worked with industry experts to tackle the issue of people smuggling for a number of years, and when we find content coordinating this illegal activity we remove it from our platforms.”

TikTok said: “We continue to strictly maintain a zero tolerance approach to human exploitation and proactively find over 95% of content we remove for breaking these rules.”

Border Force has been approached for comment.