Reform UK leader Nigel Farage blamed Keir Starmer for not getting a seat at the state banquet and whined that the Prime Minister ‘wants to pretend that I don’t exist’
Nigel Farage has claimed he doesn’t “really care” he wasn’t invited to the lavish state banquet put on for Donald Trump – as he ranted about his closeness to senior Republicans.
The Reform UK leader blamed Keir Starmer for not getting a seat at the table and whined that the Prime Minister “wants to pretend that I don’t exist”.
The brazen politician also said it was a “great shame” he hadn’t been offered the job of Ambassador to the US – though admitted he wouldn’t accept the imaginary offer now he’s a party leader – and said Mr Trump knows he’d win an election if it was held today.
Asked for his reaction to being “snubbed” at last night’s Windsor Castle banquet, Mr Farage said: “I don’t expect anything from this government at all, and you can argue, if you like, it’s the King’s invitation. It’s not really, is it? No, Starmer wants to pretend that I don’t exist.”
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He then boasted about being in the Oval Office recently, name-dropped senior US government figures he was speaking to last night and ranted about how he was at a reception in DC “with double digit numbers of Cabinet ministers” the other week. “Snub me, Starmer, if you like, I don’t really care,” the Clacton MP added, before mocking that the Prime Minister and Mr Trump had little in common – despite them getting on.
Mr Farage also said the US President “knows” that if an election were held tomorrow Mr Farage would be made Prime Minister, as Reform UK are leading in the polls.
“He knows that,” he said. “In fact, all the American administration are acutely aware of it, and they they think they see some similarities in what they’ve done, what we’ve done.”
Asked of he thought there was a chance he could be Ambassador to the US, after Peter Mandelson was sacked last week, Mr Farage said it “won’t happen”, telling The Sun: “It’s a great shame because the wine cellar is amazing… And also, even if I was offered the job, how could I possibly take it now that I’m leader of Reform.”
Since being elected an MP last year, Mr Farage has been accused of neglecting his Clacton constituency to spend time in the US to cheerlead for Mr Trump. He faced fury at the start of this month amid claims he was skipping the return of Parliament to badmouth Britain in the US and help Mr Trump’s White House meddle in our politics.
The Reform politician spent the first two sitting days after MPs return from the Summer break not in Westminster, but in Washington, doubling down on his crusade against migrants and arguing against Britain’s online safety and anti-hate speech laws.
Reform UK has long been trying to mimic Mr Trump tactics. It is even flogging Make Britain Great Again hats, inspired by the US President’s renowned Make America Great Again hats.
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