Nigel Farage seeking ‘bridge’ role between UK and Trump administration

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Nigel Farage has claimed cabinet ministers have been banned from talking to him by Downing Street&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The former UKIP leader also said he wants to be a &&num;8220&semi;bridge&&num;8221&semi; between Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s US and the UK&comma; the BBC reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His comments came after he became the first senior UK politician to meet the president-elect following his surprise victory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Downing Street did not comment on Mr Farage&&num;8217&semi;s latest remarks but previously brushed off the chances of him becoming a go-between&comma; insisting there was &&num;8220&semi;no vacancy&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Farage told BBC Radio 4&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;If you wanted to get business from the biggest company in the world and there was someone there that had the contacts and connections&comma; the first thing you do is to employ that person&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I find the fact that Downing Street don&&num;8217&semi;t want to acknowledge me&comma; have banned cabinet ministers from even talking to me&comma; it shows you the sort of very small-minded&comma; petty&comma; tribal level that British politics is at &&num;8211&semi; it&&num;8217&semi;s a shame&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Quizzed on his relationship with the president-elect and what he would compare it to&comma; he said&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;I can&&num;8217&semi;t make big decisions&comma; but I tell you what I can do&comma; what I genuinely can do&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Is I can help to be a bridge between the government in this country and the new trade department in this country and not just Donald Trump&comma; but his team and his administration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;And I would like to do that&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On whether he could secure a trade deal for the UK that Prime Minister Theresa May could not&comma; he said he thinks that &&num;8220&semi;trade deal is potentially there on offer&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;He &lpar;Donald Trump&rpar; is going to be inaugurated in a few weeks time and mark my words this is a very big Anglophile president that is taking over&comma; and that is good for us&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i> he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Responding to a question about a spike in hate crime after the EU referendum&comma; Mr Farage said he has received 10 death threats in the last two weeks&comma; but denied he fears for his life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;93598" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-93598" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;07&sol;image-71&period;jpeg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;07&sol;image-71&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Former UKIP Leader Nigel Farage" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"333" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-93598" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-93598" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Former UKIP Leader Nigel Farage<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;Have there been yobs and louts that have behaved badly since Brexit&quest; Yes&period; But&comma; you know what&comma; they were behaving badly before Brexit&period; There are always going to be people in our community like that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;And actually the recent figures show that in the last three months that spike as people saw it hate crime post referendum has now fallen markedly&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last month&comma; Mr Farage was pictured grinning in a gold-plated lift alongside the president-elect at his New York skyscraper&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump then shocked Westminster by sending a late-night tweet saying Mr Farage would do a &&num;8220&semi;great job&&num;8221&semi; as Britain&&num;8217&semi;s ambassador to the US&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Britain&&num;8217&semi;s International Trade Secretary Liam Fox dismissed Mr Farage&&num;8217&semi;s claim ministers were told not to talk to him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He told BBC&&num;8217&semi;s Andrew Marr Show&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;I have not had any such instruction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We have longstanding understandings of how we deal with incoming administrations in this country&period; We have got a full diplomatic team that was close to both the Hillary Clinton and the Donald Trump teams preparing for the relationship that we would have to have&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We don&&num;8217&semi;t need anything as an adjunct to what the Government already does&comma; and has successfully done in the past&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I think we have got a perfectly good ambassador in Washington at the present time&period; Last time I looked there was no other vacancy&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;Nigel Farage has absolutely no right to speak for Britain on the world stage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The vast majority of British people do not share his hateful vision and want to keep our country open&comma; 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