Nigel Farage ‘can’t remember’ if Donald Trump has offered him a job – POLITICO

Farage’s political future has been a long-running query in Westminster after he arrange the populist Reform U.Ok. celebration in 2021 — earlier than promptly leaving frontline politics for a profitable profession as a broadcaster and commentator.

However he has since hinted at a comeback a number of instances, whereas Reform’s lesser-known chief Richard Tice usually faces questions on a return for the celebration’s founder.

Pressed by the Telegraph on whether or not he’ll return to steer Reform — which solely narrowly trails the flagging Conservatives in current opinion polls — Farage mentioned he has three choices forward of him.

“Certainly one of them is persist with what I’m doing, I’m having fun with what I’m doing,” Farage mentioned, pointing to his work as a presenter on the right-wing GB Information channel and his different facet hustles.

“Staying as I’m is a really clear possibility. Going to America, working with Trump to attempt to get the Western world again on observe is clearly a really engaging possibility,” Farage mentioned. He listed his third possibility as a political comeback within the U.Ok.

Farage has been a pal and ally of Trump for a while, and has interviewed the previous president — soft-ball model — on a number of events. The U.Ok.’s most outstanding Brexiteer has mentioned he would fortunately function Britain’s ambassador to the U.S. beneath a Trump presidency.

Trump has returned the favor by praising Farage — describing him as a “good-looking man” at a marketing campaign rally in Iowa in January. He even despatched a video message for Farage’s lavish sixtieth birthday celebration in London final week, congratulating the Brexiteer on a “really exceptional sixty years on Earth.”