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LONDON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – After helping secure the
shock vote for Brexit, UKIP leader Nigel Farage pulled off another coup by becoming the first British politician to meet Donald Trump, upsetting the establishment once again.
Long dismissed as a political outsider who had failed repeatedly to
win a seat in the House of Commons, Farage stunned Britain and the world when he helped deliver the June vote to leave the European Union.
Five months later, Trump’s victory has again propelled the UK
Independence Party (UKIP) interim leader into the limelight.
Farage had campaigned for Trump, believing the Republican billionaire
— who many thought could never win — had tapped into similar anger over
globalisation and ruling elites as the anti-EU campaign in Britain.
When Trump won last week, Farage returned to the United States and on
Saturday met the future leader of the free world at his headquarters in New
York.
A photo of the two men — Farage grinning broadly and Trump giving a
thumbs up — was widely published in Britain, with one headline reading: “The victory of the outsiders.”
Farage has now offered to act as a conduit between the incoming US
administration and British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative
government, suggesting that fences needed mending between the two sides.
But May’s spokeswoman noted the premier had been invited to
Washington during a phone call with Trump last week and pointedly said that there was no need for a “third person” in their relationship.