Nigel Farage’s open admiration for Donald Trump may boost his profile abroad but risks alienating British voters, for whom Trump remains deeply unpopular, says Eliot Wilson

If it is true that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, then Nigel Farage can mark last week down as an unalloyed success. He travelled to Washington DC to appear as a witness in front of the House Judiciary Committee to talk about “Europe’s threat to American speech and innovation”, the status of free speech and the implications of the Online Safety Act 2023.

The Reform UK leader did not hold back. He drew on the controversial case of Lucy Connolly and the arrest the previous day of Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan, warning that the latter’s experience “could happen to any American man or woman who has said something online that the British government doesn’t like”. The very principle of free speech in Britain was in great danger, he maintained.

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