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UK Brexit-backer Nigel Farage to attend Trump inauguration

UK Brexit-backer Nigel Farage to attend Trump inauguration | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this is a Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, welcomes pro-Brexit British politician Nigel Farage, to speak at a campaign rally in Jackson, Miss. Farage says he will attend Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president. Farage, one of Trump's strongest U.K. supporters, told Sky News that he had been invited by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant. He called the Jan. 20 ceremony in Washington, DC "a great, historic event" and Trump's election "a political revolution." (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

LONDON – British anti-European Union politician Nigel Farage says he will attend Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president.

Farage, one of Trump’s strongest U.K. supporters, told Sky News that he had been invited by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant. He called the Jan. 20 ceremony in Washington “a great, historic event” and Trump’s election “a political revolution.”

Farage led the anti-EU U.K. Independence Party until November, and was a key player in Britain’s vote to leave the bloc. He sees Trump as an anti-establishment ally, and visited the president-elect soon after the Nov. 8 U.S. vote.

Despite his animosity to the EU, Farage has been a member of the European Parliament since 1999. Starting next week he will also host a daily radio phone-in show on London’s LBC, the station announced Thursday.

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