Nigel Farage has said he will not stand in the UK general election, instead focusing his efforts on getting Donald Trump re-elected in the US.

The Reform party is expected to launch its campaign on Thursday morning with candidates in all constituencies, but the former Brexit party leader said he would not be among them.

Farage said the US election on 5 November had “global significance” and that he intended “to help with the grassroots campaign in the USA in any way I can”. The 2024 election would have been Farage’s eighth attempt to enter parliament had he chosen to stand.

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    It’s funny how Republicans aren’t even hiding the fact that they invite foreign influence in elections anymore. For them , money is speech, no matter whether its Dollars, Pounds, or Rubles.

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    Nigel Farage has said he will not stand in the UK general election, instead focusing his efforts on getting Donald Trump re-elected in the US.

    Oh please do. You’re so appealing.

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    Dear America,

    With ‘friends’ like this, who needs enemies?

    Sincerely,

    The rest of the world

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    Farage said the US election on 5 November had “global significance” and that he intended “to help with the grassroots campaign in the USA

    And we avoid the trap that befalls much US media: the tendency, born of a desire to please all sides, to engage in false equivalence in the name of neutrality. We always strive to be fair. But sometimes that means calling out the lies of powerful people and institutions – and making clear how misinformation and demagoguery can damage democracy…As a global news organization with a robust US reporting staff, we’re able to provide a fresh, outsider perspective – one so often missing in the American media bubble.

    I’d personally rather that both Farage and The Guardian occupy themselves with trying to influence British elections, rather than American.

    There was this rather heated dispute we had back in 1776 over whether-or-not London should be determining American government.

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      Betcha the orange asshole invited him over, forgetting all about the history (if he ever knew it at all).