Farage’s political future has been a long-running question at Westminster after he established the populist Reform UK party in 2021 – before quickly leaving frontline politics for a lucrative career as a broadcaster and commentator.
But he has since repeatedly hinted at a return, while the Reform Party’s lesser-known leader, Richard Tice, regularly faces questions about the party founder’s return.
Pressed by the Telegraph on whether he would return to lead the Reform Party – which is only narrowly behind the declining Conservatives in recent opinion polls – Farage said he had three options before him.
“One of them is to stay true to what I do, I enjoy what I do,” Farage said, highlighting his work as a presenter on the right-wing channel GB News and his other activities.
“Staying as I am is a very clear option. Going to America and working with Trump to try to get the Western world back on track is clearly a very attractive option,” Farage said. He presented his third option as a political return to the United Kingdom.
Farage has been a friend and ally of Trump for some time and has interviewed the former president – in softball fashion – on several occasions. Britain’s most prominent Brexit supporter has said he would be happy to become Britain’s ambassador to the United States under a Trump presidency.
Trump returned the favor by praising Farage – describing him as a “handsome guy” at a campaign rally in Iowa in January. He even sent a video message to Farage’s lavish 60th birthday celebration in London last week, praising the Brexiteer for his “truly remarkable sixty years on Earth”.
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