Farage creating 'blueprint' to scare EU involves secret meetings with Trump advisers NIGEL FARAGE has revealed he will be taking the Brexit process into his own hands to “massively strengthen” the UK position to allow Britain to leave the European Union by the October deadline.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said he will be attempting to speak to some of Britain’s biggest industrialists in hope of securing a trading blueprint with the US after Brexit. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mr Farage said: “What I would like to do and what I have been trying to do for the last few weeks is to try to find some big UK industrialists, and I am talking to a few, to start meeting with Trump’s trade advisors so that we can start to get the blueprint together.
“You know, as soon as the European Union realises that we are serious about big all-encompassing deals with countries like America, it massively strengthens our position between now and October 31.”
The former Ukip leader also hit out at UK’s ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, after a series of scathing memos were leaked.
Sir Kim claimed Donald Trump was “incompetent”, “inept” and “insecure” in the memos.
He also said the White House had become “uniquely dysfunctional” with Mr Trump as President, due to “vicious infighting and chaos”.
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He said: "We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction driven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept."
Mr Darroch also said the president had been "dazzled" by the pomp and ceremony of his state visit to the UK in June.
Calling for the ambassador to be sacked, the Brexit Party leader warned these leaked memos have done serious damage to the US-UK relationship.
Mr Farage insisted Sir Kim’s replacement should be someone outside of the civil service because it is “not politically neutral”.
He added: “It would be a very good signal to find somebody from outside of the Foreign Office or outside of the civil service.
“You know, a retired business figure – something like that would send the right message.”
Following the release of the memos, US President Donald Trump has hit out at the ambassador.
Mr Trump told reporters: "The ambassador has not served the UK well, I can tell you that.
"We are not big fans of that man and he has not served the UK well.
“So I can understand it, and I can say things about him but I won't bother."
A formal inquiry is set to be held into the leak of the memos.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "The British public would expect our ambassadors to provide ministers with an honest, unvarnished assessment of the politics in their country.
"Their views are not necessarily the views of ministers or indeed the Government.
"But we pay them to be candid. Just as the US ambassador here will send back his reading of Westminster politics and personalities.
"Of course we would expect such advice to be handled by ministers and civil servants in the right way, and it's important that our ambassadors can offer their advice and for it remain confidential.
"Our team in Washington have strong relations with the White House and no doubt. These will withstand such mischievous behaviour."
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