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| Farage first UK politician to meet Trump since election | Farage first UK politician to meet Trump since election |
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| Nigel Farage has become the first British politician to meet Donald Trump since he became US president-elect. | Nigel Farage has become the first British politician to meet Donald Trump since he became US president-elect. |
| A UKIP spokesman said the interim party leader discussed "freedom and winning" with Mr Trump on a visit to Trump Tower in New York. | A UKIP spokesman said the interim party leader discussed "freedom and winning" with Mr Trump on a visit to Trump Tower in New York. |
| Mr Trump's spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway said the meeting had been "very productive". | Mr Trump's spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway said the meeting had been "very productive". |
| Downing Street said Mr Farage had "no role" in the government's relationship with the incoming US administration. | Downing Street said Mr Farage had "no role" in the government's relationship with the incoming US administration. |
| Speaking after the meeting, Mr Farage said: "It was a great honour to spend time with Donald Trump. He was relaxed, and full of good ideas. | Speaking after the meeting, Mr Farage said: "It was a great honour to spend time with Donald Trump. He was relaxed, and full of good ideas. |
| "I'm confident he will be a good president. His support for the US-UK relationship is very strong. This is a man with whom we can do business." | "I'm confident he will be a good president. His support for the US-UK relationship is very strong. This is a man with whom we can do business." |
| Analysis | Analysis |
| By Chris Mason, political correspondent | By Chris Mason, political correspondent |
| It's the image that encapsulates politics in 2016. President-elect Trump, in an open necked shirt, smiles, giving the thumbs up gesture. | It's the image that encapsulates politics in 2016. President-elect Trump, in an open necked shirt, smiles, giving the thumbs up gesture. |
| He's stood, shoulder to shoulder, with Nigel Farage in front of a glitzy, golden backdrop inside Trump Tower in New York. Outsiders, who faced scorn and ridicule, they stand together now as winners. To be anti-establishment now is to be mainstream. | He's stood, shoulder to shoulder, with Nigel Farage in front of a glitzy, golden backdrop inside Trump Tower in New York. Outsiders, who faced scorn and ridicule, they stand together now as winners. To be anti-establishment now is to be mainstream. |
| The two men, catalysts for political convulsions on both sides of the Atlantic, discussed "freedom and winning," UKIP sources said. | The two men, catalysts for political convulsions on both sides of the Atlantic, discussed "freedom and winning," UKIP sources said. |
| Their meeting was an embarrassment for Downing Street and stellar political theatre - but perhaps only that. Nigel Farage knows Mr Trump, but wields no power. | Their meeting was an embarrassment for Downing Street and stellar political theatre - but perhaps only that. Nigel Farage knows Mr Trump, but wields no power. |
| The challenge for the UK government now is to build bridges with a new American administration it didn't want, and didn't expect to win. | The challenge for the UK government now is to build bridges with a new American administration it didn't want, and didn't expect to win. |
| Mr Farage asked Mr Trump to return a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the White House Oval Office, a party spokesman said. | Mr Farage asked Mr Trump to return a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the White House Oval Office, a party spokesman said. |
| Mr Farage said he had been "especially pleased" by Mr Trump's "very positive reaction" to the idea of the bust returning. | Mr Farage said he had been "especially pleased" by Mr Trump's "very positive reaction" to the idea of the bust returning. |
| Ms Conway said the two men "enjoy each other's company and they had the opportunity to talk about freedom and winning and what all this means for the world". | Ms Conway said the two men "enjoy each other's company and they had the opportunity to talk about freedom and winning and what all this means for the world". |
| A UKIP source said the meeting had "made the prime minister look very foolish". | A UKIP source said the meeting had "made the prime minister look very foolish". |
| Mr Farage earlier told US media that Mrs May's team had been "quite rude" about Mr Trump, "so there are some fences to be mended". | Mr Farage earlier told US media that Mrs May's team had been "quite rude" about Mr Trump, "so there are some fences to be mended". |
| "Trump is an Anglophile, he understands and recognises what our two great nations have done together between us," he told Fox News. | "Trump is an Anglophile, he understands and recognises what our two great nations have done together between us," he told Fox News. |
| "And, thank goodness, we are coming towards the end of an American president who loathed Britain. | "And, thank goodness, we are coming towards the end of an American president who loathed Britain. |
| "One of the things we can do, we can have between us a sensible trade relationship, cut tariffs, we are massive investors in each other's countries. There's a bright future." | "One of the things we can do, we can have between us a sensible trade relationship, cut tariffs, we are massive investors in each other's countries. There's a bright future." |
| 'Implausible' | 'Implausible' |
| When asked ahead of the meeting if Mr Trump had invited him, Mr Farage joked to reporters: "We're just tourists." | When asked ahead of the meeting if Mr Trump had invited him, Mr Farage joked to reporters: "We're just tourists." |
| Mrs May plans to visit Mr Trump in the first three months of next year after his inauguration. | Mrs May plans to visit Mr Trump in the first three months of next year after his inauguration. |
| Crispin Blunt, chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, described as "completely implausible" the idea that Mr Farage would have an ambassadorial role in a Trump administration , telling the BBC there was "no need for Nigel". | Crispin Blunt, chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, described as "completely implausible" the idea that Mr Farage would have an ambassadorial role in a Trump administration , telling the BBC there was "no need for Nigel". |
| Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he understood the appeal of Mr Trump's rhetoric to people angry at being "left behind" by globalisation but he said the president-elect needed to "grow up" when it came to his views on immigration. | |
| Mr Corbyn, whose wife is Mexican, said the US economy was reliant on migrant labour and plans to build a wall on the border had caused "anger and outrage". | Mr Corbyn, whose wife is Mexican, said the US economy was reliant on migrant labour and plans to build a wall on the border had caused "anger and outrage". |
| "I think the treatment of Mexico by the US, just as much as the absurd, abusive language to Muslims, is something that should be challenged and has to be challenged," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr show. | "I think the treatment of Mexico by the US, just as much as the absurd, abusive language to Muslims, is something that should be challenged and has to be challenged," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr show. |
| UKIP and other right-wing parties did not have the answer to increasing economic marginalisation and inequality, he said. | UKIP and other right-wing parties did not have the answer to increasing economic marginalisation and inequality, he said. |