Farage attacks UK PM after Trump backing

“He would do a great job!” he tweeted. That Ambassador will now have to work with the US President who has recommended someone else for his job.

Following the outsider’s shock election victory Mr Farage said Theresa May’s refusal to bring him in as a go-between was “nonsense” and urged her to set aside “petty personal differences”. “The world has changed and it’s time that Downing Street did too”.

Taking an apparent swipe at the tousle-haired Johnson, who in the past called Trump “out of his mind”, Farage said politicians who once denounced Trump “now pretend” to be his friend. A spokesman for May said there is “no vacancy” at the British Embassy in Washington and praised the work of the incumbent ambassador, Kim Darroch. For the better or worse, Mr. Trump is proving to be unconventional in many ways.

Britain voted to leave the European Union at a referendum in June, in events that have drawn parallels to Trump’s election.

Donald Trump, the President-elect of the United States, has suggested in a recent Twitter post that Nigel Farage would make a “great” UK Ambassador to the US.

Britain rejects an unprecedented call by a U.S. president to appoint an ambassador in Washington, dismissing President-elect’s choice, Nigel Farage, for the post.

“What followed with the victory of Donald J Trump has still not sunk in with the establishment that he beat”, he added.

Donald Trump has revealed he wants Nigel Farage to be a United Kingdom ambassador to the US.

Farage will now travel to Washington in early December with the same group of UKIP aides and UKIP donors who met Trump in NY, including millionaire donor Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore, Banks’ advisor. The British government is trying to build ties with the new USA administration, after Trump took more than a day to call the prime minister after his election victory this month.

Visits from foreign heads of government are typically elaborately choreographed affairs, and those in the early stages of a new president’s term are often carefully calculated to send signals about their global priorities.

May’s government confirmed earlier this week it was considering inviting Trump to the United Kingdom for a state visit in 2017, in an apparent attempt to rebuild a “special relationship” seen to have deteriorated under President Barack Obama.

Backing Mr Farage, another chimed in saying: “Speak for yourself”.