Nigel Farage reveals his new job isn’t being the UK’s ambassador to Donald Trump – but a talk radio host
The ex-Ukip boss has been angling for a big job in Brexit, but instead will present an hour long show every day
NIGEL Farage had been hoping his next big job after Brexit was to be the UK’s ambassador to Donald Trump – but instead he is becoming a talk radio host
The former Ukip leader was previously tipped for the Washington role by the US president-elect, but instead will present an hour-long show every night.
Mr Trump announced on Twitter he thought the interim Ukip leader would do a “great job” in the role.
The real estate mogul said “many people” wanted to see him as the UK’s most senior diplomat in the States, after the pair struck up a friendship during his election campaign.
And Mr Farage even seemed to audition for the role after being pictured with a plate of Ferrero Rocher - but he was slapped down by Theresa May.
He had also said on Tuesday he would "rather fancy" taking Sir Ivan Rogers' job as UK permanent representative to the EU - a post now filled by Sir Tim Barrow.
This is despite the fact he is an MEP for the South East England region, and is collecting a salary from the European Parliament of €98,556.
It is now worth about £10,000 more than it was before the Brexit vote which he campaigned so heavily for, as the pound’s value has dropped since the referendum.
But Liberal Democrats questioned whether the job was compatible with his duties to his constituents.
"Shouldn't he be, you know, turning up to his office in the European Parliament?" said a party spokesman.
"If not, maybe he could donate his MEP salary to the NHS?"
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Mr Farage hit back, saying: "This makes no difference to my job as an MEP. You can tell the Liberal Democrats I'm going to cut my political working week down to 40 hours from 100.
“And we will be broadcasting the show from Brussels next Tuesday."
Announcing the launch of The Nigel Farage Show on LBC, he said it would be "full of opinions, callers and reaction, as well as my nightly final thought on the events of the day".
The 52-year-old added: "If 2016 was exciting, then this year could be tumultuous with President Trump, Article 50, elections all over Europe and maybe a eurozone crash.
“I can't wait to start my daily show on LBC and I invite listeners to agree with me or challenge me and together we can lead Britain's conversation."
But Nigel Farage has already run into trouble with one of his new colleagues, who retweeted a post calling him a “Nazi Alan Partridge”.
James O’Brien, who presents a daily morning programme on LBC, sent a tweet from another user to his followers which read: “When you were going for UK Ambassador to the US, but Nazi Alan Partridge is going to have to do.”
