TRUMP CONGRATULATES UK’S FARAGE, IGNORES STARMER
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While praising fellow populist Nigel Farage’s election to the British parliament on Friday, former US president Donald Trump failed to bring up Keir Starmer, the country’s new prime minister.
Although Farage’s anti-immigration Reform UK party received the third most votes, it only managed to secure four seats in the British parliament as Starmer’s Labour party achieved a landslide victory.
“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!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
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Longtime Trump supporter Farage has called the divorced father of four children “Mr. Brexit” and said the British nationalist would have done a “great job” representing the UK in Washington.
Advocate of Brexit, Farage was elected to parliament on his eighth try and has never hidden his ambition to seize control of the Conservative party, which is currently the primary opposition after Labour crushed it in the polls.
“There is a massive gap on the centre-right of British politics and my job is to fill it,” he said after a comfortable win in Clacton, eastern England.
The result bucks a rightward trend among Britain’s closest allies, with the far-right National Rally in France eyeing power and Trump looking set for a return in the United States.
Farage’s win will likely embolden the attention-grabbing populist figurehead in his long-term aim of staging a “takeover” of the Conservatives.
Millions of their voters appeared to have already switched their support to Reform, handing the Tories one of their worst-ever results.
An initial exit poll had caused a stir Thursday night after predicting Reform would secure 13 seats — far exceeding forecasts in the latter stages of the campaign that it would win just a handful of seats.
AFP
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