Nigel Farage has been touted for his links to Donald Trump, but there's an important role much closer to home if only Keir Starmer would listen.

Nigel Farage has told the Reform UK conference the British government needs to do everything it can to welcome Mr Trump and negotiate a trade deal.

Farage, the Brexit-campaigner and self-described troublemaker, is a friend of Trump and was at his election victory party in Florida. He has offered to act as an interlocutor between the British government and the Trump administration, which takes power in January.

Farage, who leads the upstart, right-wing Reform UK, won a seat in the U.K. parliament for the first time at the general election in July, helping to erode the Conservative vote as the party was booted out of office.

The Reform UK leader – a close ally of Mr Trump and the only UK politician who was at his Palm Beach home on election night - described Mr Trump as a “pro-British American president”. He claimed the Republican politician would give the UK “potentially huge opportunities if we can overcome the difficulties that the whole of the cabinet have been rude about him”.

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Nigel Farage says the Prime Minister has the chance to save Britain from tariffs and strike a historic trade deal with the United States.

Nigel Farage has said he could be "useful as an interlocutor" between the Labour Government and Donald Trump. The Reform UK leader said he has "got a great relationship" with the president-elect and knows people he believes will be in Mr Trump's administration for "quite a long time".