Nigel Farage slapped down after brazen offer to help Labour with Donald Trump

Reform UK person Nigel Farage said helium thinks helium could beryllium a adjuvant 'bridge' betwixt Labour and Donald Trump aft the Republican won the US statesmanlike the election

Nigel Farage appears to person been slapped down by a curate aft his shameless connection to assistance the Labour authorities with Donald Trump.

The Reform UK leader, who ditched his constituents successful Clacton to enactment his pal successful the US, said helium thinks helium could beryllium a adjuvant "bridge" betwixt Labour and Mr Trump aft the Republican won the US statesmanlike the predetermination connected Tuesday.

Speaking from a sunny spot successful Florida, Mr Farage told ITV: "There are ways successful which I deliberation I tin assistance creaseless the narration betwixt Trump, the radical he's going to name into elder roles successful the administration, astir of whom I besides know. If I tin beryllium adjuvant arsenic a span betwixt the two, I would bash it. And it's not due to the fact that I hold with thing the Labour authorities stands for, I'd bash it due to the fact that it's successful our nationalist interest."

But Cabinet Office curate Pat McFadden appeared to cull the connection arsenic helium said moving with the US was not astir a "single individual" and insisted Labour already had a bully narration with Mr Trump.

Asked astir erstwhile Tory curate Nadhim Zahawi proposition that Mr Farage mightiness assistance the authorities with a commercialized deal, helium told Times Radio: "I deliberation we'll person our ain relationships. We've got an fantabulous American ambassador, UK ambassador successful the United States. We've had the telephone betwixt the Prime Minister and the President past night. And the bully happening astir our relationship with the United States is it's not based connected immoderate azygous individual, it's overmuch deeper than that."

Mr McFadden insisted comments made by Labour Cabinet ministers astir Mr Trump volition not "interfere" successful the "important alliance" betwixt the UK and US. He told Sky News: "I deliberation a batch of things that person been said implicit the years, but not conscionable present successful the UK, including successful the US. If you look astatine what Vice President Elect JD Vance said astir President Trump, helium mused whether this was going to beryllium different Richard Nixon oregon America's Hitler, and it's not held him backmost from being the moving mate."

He said President-elect Mr Trump said "a batch of fiery things" successful his predetermination run but that the absorption should beryllium connected the enactment helium takes. Mr McFadden, who made the remark successful narration to Mr Trump having said helium wants to slap tariffs connected goods from abroad, urged the nationalist to "wait to spot what helium really does" connected imaginable tariffs.

Asked astir the interaction a much isolationist US would person connected the UK system Mr McFadden told Sky News: "I deliberation you've got to recognize that successful an election, a batch of fiery things are said, and President-elect Trump says a batch of fiery things, and the important happening is what helium really does.

"We evidently person interests arsenic a trading nation. We privation to support and look aft our interests, and we ever privation to person a dialog with the US medication astir those. But for anyone speculating astir what precisely volition happen, I would counsel let's hold to spot what helium really does, alternatively than instrumentality everything said successful a campaign."