Brexit Engineer Nigel Farage To Move To America

The Telegraph reports:

Nigel Farage is planning to visit Washington DC early next month to meet again with aides to US President-elect Donald Trump. The visit to the US capital will be seen as part of an unofficial diplomatic offensive by Mr Farage to forge links with Mr Trump’s team which will undermine Theresa May, the Prime Minister, who is still yet to meet with the President-elect. Sources close to the interim leader of the UK Independence Party (Ukip) said he will be meeting with the team around Mr Trump.

It comes as amid claims he is planning to move across the Atlantic to escape from the public eye. Friends of Mr Farage told the Times that he is preparing to emigrate to America with his wife Kirsten. Mr Farage is due to travel with the same group who met Mr Trump 10 days ago including Arron Banks, the millionaire supporter of Ukip, and Andy Wigmore, who advises Mr Banks.

Mr Farage will meet with “the transition team” who are preparing for Mr Trump’s move to the White House in January. One friend said: “They are in constant contact.” Mr Farage’s friends played down claims that he is set to receive a peerage or knighthood in the New Year’s honours list.

Mr Farage was the first UK politician to visit the President-elect after his victory against Hillary Clinton earlier this month. He also helped Mr Trump during his campaign, speaking at a rally in Mississippi. Mr Trump caused a political storm on Monday when he said on Twitter that “many people” would like to see Mr Farage as UK ambassador to the US and said he would do a “great job”.

The comments were seen as undermining the work of Sir Kim Darroch, a former key aide to David Cameron when he was Prime Minister who only took over as Britain’s ambassador to the United States in January this year.