Ukip leader Nigel Farage wants to be Trump ambassador to Brussels

This courtesy call was described by one of aides of the President-elect as a “very productive” meeting.

While President Obama said Britain would be at the back of the queue for a trade deal, Trump has said the opposite.

Asked what they talked about when they met at Trump Tower in NY, he said “freedom and winning”.

After the meeting Mr Farage tweeted that it had been “a great honour” to spend time with Mr Trump, adding: “He was relaxed and full of good ideas”.

In a pointed swipe at No 10 officials who have dismissed his links to Mr Trump, the Ukip leader said: “It would appear that the apparatchiks in Downing Street keep saying very negative things about me”.

Downing Street has dismissed the suggestion the United Kingdom government would use Farage as a intermediary to deal with Trump – describing the Ukip leader as an “irrelevance”. “We do not have any urgent business that we need to transact”, he said.

Speaking to TalkRadio in a sometimes raucous late-evening call on Wednesday, Mr Farage was asked if he had “a lot to answer for” over Mr Trump’s victory.

Mr Farage said it was unlikely the U.S. president-elect would take him on as an adviser, as he was not an American citizen, but told Talk Radio: “I will be encouraging him to make the United Kingdom his number one global priority”.

In a final campaign push in Raleigh, North Carolina on Monday Trump said the USA vote would be “Brexit plus plus plus”.

The Ukip politician made the comments during a defence of president-elect Donald Trump, who he claimed would be a steadfast friend of Britain.

On August 24, Farage joined a Trump rally in Jackson, Mississippi, and said he would not vote for Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton even if he was “paid”.

During the election campaign Mr Farage shared a stage with the President-elect and addressed his supporters.

Michael Fabricant, a fellow Tory MP, told the Daily Mail that Trump is “very pro-British with extensive business interests in the United Kingdom”.

However, he said it would not be right for the President-elect to snub Mrs May.

Mr Farage, who travelled to the USA to campaign alongside the President-elect, defended Mr Trump at the time, dismissing the furore and saying it was just a bit of “alpha male banter” and “the kind of thing. that men do”.

Arguing that Britain should not be “afraid” of Mr. Trump, he added: ” Do you know what?