“The world has changed and it’s time that Downing Street did too,” Farage said on the pro-Trump Breitbart website.
Farage’s words had a hard edge. He said “a new order” is taking over in Washington, while in Britain the top players remain the same. He complained that politicians who had favored keeping Britain inside the EU bloc—a position favored by May before the referendum—remain in charge of U.K. policies.
Taking an apparent swipe at the tousle-haired Johnson, who in the past called Trump “out of his mind,” Farage said politicians who once denounced Trump “now pretend” to be his friend.
There is little question that Trump sees Farage as a potential friend. Trump endorsed the Brexit movement even as it was opposed by President Barack Obama and other global leaders.
Farage returned the favor by campaigning for Trump in Mississippi, and he became the first foreign politician invited to Trump Tower after Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.
The two wealthy men, both with entrepreneurial backgrounds, share an anti-establishment mentality.
