Trump’s the new Churchill, says Brit pal Farage

LONDON — Nigel Farage compared his friend Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election to the plight of Winston Churchill.

The Reform UK leader, a top British ally of the incoming U.S. president, drew parallels between Trump — booted out by voters in 2020 only to triumph in 2024 — and the British wartime hero, who lost to Labour after the Second World War but returned as prime minister in 1951.

“The swings towards Trump are truly remarkable, so I’m thrilled by that,” Farage told GB News.

“On a human level, for him, this is the most incredible political comeback we’ve seen in modern times.

“No one since Churchill has gone from the top to the bottom and come back again in quite this way. That’s remarkable,” he added.

Trump is likely to enjoy the comparison.

He had a bust of Churchill in the Oval Office during his first term as president, and once called him a “very handsome man.”

Farage enjoys a close relationship with Trump. He was the only British MP with the U.S. Republican at his Mar-a-Lago resort as the election results came in.

The Brexiteer has already pledged to act as a bridge between the center-left Labour government headed up by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a Trump White House.

“Despite being a political opponent of Starmer … in many, many ways, what I do know is that our relationship with America is crucial to our future survival,” he told Talk TV. “It’s going to need Keir Starmer to roll out the red carpet.”