Donald Trump congratulates UK’s Farage, ignores Starmer

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Former US president Donald Trump celebrated the election of fellow populist Nigel Farage to Britain’s parliament yesterday, neglecting to mention the new prime minister, Keir Starmer.

Farage’s anti-immigration Reform UK party won the third largest vote haul, but under Britain’s electoral system it took just four seats while Starmer’s Labour party swept into office with a landslide.

“Congratulations to Nigel Farage on his big WIN of a Parliament Seat Amid Reform UK Election Success.

Nigel is a man who truly loves his Country!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. Farage is a long-standing ally of Trump, who has dubbed the divorced fatherof-four “Mr Brexit” and previously said the British populist would have done a “great job” as the UK’s ambassador to Washington.