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Nigel Farage has announced he will be "having words" with Donald Trump's administration following this threat of tariffs on Britain.Speaking to GB News, the Reform UK leader hit out at the US President for his "wrong" and "very hurtful" move against the UK.FULL STORY HERE.
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So I only ever got involved in politics because I love my country and it was Margaret Thatcher that inspired me to join the Conservative Party at the age of 14
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So for me, giving away His Majesty's territories to a foreign country, which is denying the Chagossian people their right of self-determination
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at the same time undermining our British security and paying billions of pounds for doing so
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When, sadly, it was a Conservative government that started this whole policy in the first place
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I just feel ashamed. And it's a total failure of the British state to protect British interests
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The Conservative Party and the Labour Party have played a part in this
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And I can't put my name to it, ever. And I repudiate what has happened
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And that's one of the reasons I decided this weekend to join Nigel and Reform UK
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this man has to be our next Prime Minister because our country needs reform, it needs change
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and we need to rescue our nation from the calamity of this socialist government
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Very good. Questions? Mr Brosh, can I ask you personally, what relapse do you think Donald Trump is bluffing
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when he talks about a tariff for nations such as the UK? And Mr Rosendale, can I ask you
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have any Conservative MPs since your defection reached out and are seeking your counsel on potentially doing the same
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Whether Trump's bluffing or not is always difficult to tell, but to use economic threats
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against the country that's been considered to be your closest ally for over 100 years
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is not the kind of thing we would expect It wrong it bad it would be very hurtful to us Now I think we in a position where we can negotiate You know we not tied We not tied by European Union trade rules
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That does give us an advantage in these negotiations. But I would just say this. I'm all for Trump taking out enemies of the West
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Maduro, the Iranian regime. But if he falls out with his own allies and leaves America isolated
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that would be a very bad place to be. So I'm worried about it. I'm concerned about it
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I've always been a supporter of the president since way before he got elected first time
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But I will be having some words with the American administration in Davos on Wednesday on this issue
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It's wrong. So I have many, many friends in the Conservative Party, many colleagues
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A lot of messages I've had met few this morning and they've all been incredibly kind
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They understand why I've done this. I have no malice towards my friends in the Conservative Party
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I will say this, though, I have argued for months and months and months that we need to unite the right
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We need to get rid of this Labour government and we need to bring people of like mind together to ensure that the next election we get a right-wing government or right-of-centre government in power with Nigel as Prime Minister
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And I know that my colleagues, my former Conservative Party colleagues, are welcome to support what I think is a plan to rescue the country
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That's what it should be about. It's not about party politics. Actually, the main goal is
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to rescue Britain and that's why I've made the decision I have
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I think with Robert Jennery and with Andrew Rosendahl, what you're seeing is the centre-right
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uniting because so much of the current parliamentary Conservative Party is one nation centrists Frankly half of them would fit very neatly into the Lib Dems And when it comes to policy well some will argue well Kem is now saying all the things Nigel you would agree with
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Well, there's some truth in that, but they didn't do any of them in 14 years in power, despite repeated manifesto promises
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So it really is an issue of trust. So I believe what we're doing is genuinely uniting the centre of right
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In the last few days, we're in a significant step towards that. Mr Farage, ITV News
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If President Trump levies tariffs over Greenland, should the UK retaliate? I think to retaliate would probably hurt us even more
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We have to negotiate. And it's one area where, with Brexit, we are free to negotiate directly
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We did so relatively successfully compared to our European counterparts earlier in the year
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And look, we know that Trump does use a degree of bluff. It's part of his negotiating tactic
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You can never completely predict what he will do, but no, I don't think recipient tariffs at this stage would make any sense at all
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Do you condemn him? I think he's wrong. I think what he's done is wrong
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I don't think you turn on your allies. By the way, I completely understand strategically why Greenland matters so much
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But I just said to Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, if Greenland matters because of worries about Russia
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worries about China, well, wake up and smell the coffee on Diego Garcia
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I mean, being described to me as the most important US military base
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in the world outside of mainland America. And so they need to wake up and smell the coffee on that one too Thank you You probably have better contact better relations with Donald Trump than those people in the House of Commons
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Will you pick up the phone and speak to him directly? And Andrew Ophiard, you're talking about Barbara Tasha, even your office is called
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Barbara Tasha House. Do you think she now feel more at home than in the UK
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Well, there's little doubt that in the European elections, she did vote UKIP
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a few years ago. Who does live? Everyone knows that to be true. We're not in the period of Thatcherism, we're in a different time
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She was there at a moment in time to cure the illness of the British economy, above all
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The seller social problems we've got now are far worse, actually, than anything she faced back in 1979
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And on Donald Trump, will you speak directly? I will be going to USA House in Davos on Wednesday
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and I'll be meeting members of the administration. And I will say very clearly what I've just said
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This is not the way to treat your best friends. This is not the way to get support
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I'd love to see a successful economic partnership between Greenland and America
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And I hope and pray that's where we end up. Did you watch Kit Starr's speech this morning
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I did. What did you make of his message to the President? Well, what he says in public
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and maybe what he says in private, are two different things. So let's see. Let's see. I felt the Prime Minister's instinctive
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response to say this was completely wrong was actually the correct thing to say. But
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let's see how tough we can be. Let's see how good a negotiator he is. Some of the evidence
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when it comes to the EU reset of the Chagos deal is our Prime Minister is not a born negotiator
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and that would be my concern
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