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Which British politicians have backed Trump?

Simon Calder’s Travel

With the votes being counted in a fierce battle for the White House, which British politicians will be celebrating if Donald Trump emerges victorious?

We take a look at the political players both old and new who have rallied for the Republican.

Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage has told his “good friend” Donald Trump to accept the result of the US election if Kamala Harris wins, suggesting the former president should “go and play golf”.

Speaking to reporters during a visit to the former president’s home in Palm Beach, The Reform UK MP told The Telegraph: “If [the result] was clear and decisive then maybe it’s time [for Trump] to go and play golf at Turnberry.”

“It’s all hypothetical and I still think he is going to win”, he added.

The MP for Clacton also called for Democrat Kamala Harris to pardon Trump “to dampen down” the threat of violence if she wins on election night amid a tight presidential race.

It came as Trump hailed Farage at one of his rallies in Pennsylvania on Monday, calling him the “big winner” in the UK general election which Labour won by a landslide.

Trump told the rally: “He has always been my friend for some reason. He likes me, I like him. He is shaking it up pretty good over there. He was the big winner of the last election in the UK.

“He is a very spectacular man, very highly respected. He’s a little bit of a rebel but that’s good – don’t change Nigel.”

Liz Truss

Liz Truss preaches her political during the Conservative Political Action Conference

Liz Truss preaches her political during the Conservative Political Action Conference (EPA)

The UK’s shortest-serving prime minister has been on the Conservative right wing tour circuit appearing to reinvent herself as a populist after her disastrous premiership.

Truss endorsed Trump to win this year’s US presidential election, telling the BBC the “world was safer” when he was in the White House.

The former prime minister said the world was “on the cusp of very, very serious conflict” and needed “a strong America more than ever”.

She told the Telegraph: “I do want to see Trump in the White House it’s the most important thing for several decades is this 2024 election in the US.

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson found himself having to defend Trump’s outlandish comments on social media on more than one occasion.

Donald Trump and Boris Johnson at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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