Trump Ally Nigel Farage Changes Tone on UK Migration in Bid for Power

Farage says high-skilled workers from elsewhere needed in UK
Says Trump would be in favor of sector-specific trade deals

WATCH: “My brand of politics is non-sectarian, non-racist,” Farage says, adding that he has “no problem” with migrants who “bring high skills, pay taxes and integrate.”Source: Bloomberg

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By Lucy White, Caroline Hepker, and William Shaw

January 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM UTC

Updated on

January 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM UTC

Nigel Farage denied being anti-immigration and advocated for market-friendly fiscal policies in a bid to show that his insurgent Reform UK was ready to challenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party for power.

Farage — the populist architect of Brexit and a friend of incoming US President Donald Trump — told Bloomberg’s UK Politics podcast that he accepted that his party’s economic plans came with a “big initial cost.” But he denied they would spark the same sort of market havoc as seen during former Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss’ disastrous seven weeks in office in 2022.