Have you noticed that Nigel Farage doesn’t talk about Donald Trump anymore?

By Martin Farr, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University

Each is the main political subject in their country, and one is the main political subject in the world. Each rode the populist wave in 2016, campaigning for the other. In 2024 the tandem surfers remounted on to an even greater breaker. Yet, though nothing has happened to suggest that bromance is dead, neither Donald Trump nor Nigel Farage publicly now speak of the other.

Trump – “Mr Brexit” – was a presiding spirit of Leave. His own presidential campaign shared personnel…

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