This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter.

It appears that while Nigel Farage knows he won’t become the UK’s ambassador to the court of Donald Trump, he’s quite happy to be MAGA’s voice in Britain.

Indeed, Farage seems more than willing to bully his own nation on behalf of Trump, and even to use military might as the means to carry out that bullying.

Farage’s strategy is obvious: to destabilise the UK government by amplifying Trump’s threats against Britain and thereby ride to power at Westminster.

Why else stick the knife into your country? The lure of becoming Prime Minister Farage, the UK’s very own mini-Trump, must be hypnotising.

It all centres on the byzantine deal regarding the Chagos Islands. The agreement sees the UK relinquish sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean and cede control to Mauritius.

As part of the deal the UK will maintain a 99-year lease on Diego Garcia, site of a huge British-American military airbase.

Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick for Secretary of State, has said the deal poses a “serious threat” to US national security, claiming Mauritius is allied with China.

Farage has now waded into the affair, making some astonishingly damaging statements. He claims Trump’s cabinet team is “horrified” by the deal, and added: “We have to be an ally to Donald Trump. Allies don’t........

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