Donald Trump led the the congratulations to his friend Nigel Farage on becoming a member of the British Parliament for the first time.
‘Congratulations to Nigel Farage on his big WIN of a Parliament Seat Amid Reform UK Election Success. Nigel is a man who truly loves his Country! DJT,’ the Republican presidential nominee wrote in a post on TruthSocial.
However in his social media activities, Trump made no reference to new Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Starmer has previously said that his government will work with whomever is in the White House following November’s election.
Farage, 60, originally said that he had no plans to stand in the July election, choosing to focus on stumping for Trump in the United States. A sudden U-turn saw him abandon those plans and launch his campaign a month before ballots were cast.
Partial results show the anti-immigration Reform, successor to the Brexit Party, has taken votes from both the Conservatives and Labour.
Donald Trump led the the congratulations to his friend Nigel Farage on becoming a member of the British Parliament for the first time
Farage easily won election in the coastal town of Clacton, gaining nearly 25,000 votes
In his social media praise, Trump made no reference to the new Prime Minister Keir Starmer
Farage said the party was ‘going to come second in hundreds of constituencies.’ It is not yet clear how many seats Reform will win.
He said there is a ‘massive gap’ in the right of British politics, and it was his job to fill it.
‘My plan is to build a mass national movement over the course of the next few years,’ he said.
Farage, previously a member of the European Union’s Parliament from 1999 until Brexit, has stood multiple times in an attempt to enter Westminster.
The leader of the Reform Party, Farage earned nearly 25,000 votes in Clacton, an area that strongly backed Brexit in 2016.
Trump and Farage’s relationship goes back as far as 2016 when during the former Apprentice host’s first presidential campaign, he made stump speeches for him on the campaign trail.
Farage was among the attendees at Trump’s inauguration in January 2017.
The pair’s relationship was fostered in part by Republican activist John Bartley Boykin who met Farage at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Boykin died this past March at the age of 32.
If Trump is victorious in November in his battle with President Joe Biden, he will need to form a relationship with Starmer’s new government.
Recently, Starmer’s foreign secretary elect David Lammy said that Trump is ‘often misunderstood.’
At the time of Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, Lammy said that the ceremony ‘filled him with joy.’
In the same month, Lammy condemned Trump further.
‘Donald Trump’s entire Presidency has been a reign of recklessness, narcissism and delusion,’ he wrote on Twitter.
