{"id":92230,"date":"2016-11-28T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T14:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=92230"},"modified":"2016-11-28T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T14:38:37","slug":"britains-pro-brexit-party-picks-new-leader-replace-trump-ally-nigel-farage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/britains-pro-brexit-party-picks-new-leader-replace-trump-ally-nigel-farage\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s pro-Brexit party picks new leader to replace Trump ally Nigel Farage"},"content":{"rendered":"
The British political party that helped carry the nation toward an exit from the European Union picked a former top deputy as its new leader Monday to replace the firebrand Nigel Farage as he shifts to building his personal ties with President-elect Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
The selection of Paul Nuttall, a European Parliament member, seeks to end internal turmoil within the U.K. Independence Party, or UKIP, as it tries to chart a path without the charismatic but combative Farage, who led the party’s anti-E.U. attacks before June’s referendum that backed leaving the 28-nation bloc.<\/p>\n
Farage has now turned his attention across the Atlantic, hoping to carve out a role as a chief British confidant for Trump – who shattered protocol earlier this month and suggested on Twitter that Britain should appoint Farage as ambassador to the United States. British Prime Minister Theresa May issued a terse but firm rebuke to Trump’s surprise tweet.<\/p>\n
Still, Nuttall will take over a party seen as part of the populist groundswell in the West led by the poll-defying victories of Brexit and Trump.<\/p>\n
Nuttall’s main challenges now appear to be forging a post-Farage identity for the party and moving beyond its ultra-fringe voice in Parliament – holding just one seat in the 650-member House of Commons.<\/p>\n
Nuttall, who was Farage’s top deputy and a former university history professor, beat back a challenge from another insider, Suzanne Evans, who drafted UKIP’s 2015 election manifesto that included broadsides against the European Union and Britain’s immigration policies.<\/p>\n
Last week, Farage warned of a “seismic shock” if Brexit is delayed beyond the current plans to set the break in motion this spring.<\/p>\n
But Britain’s treasury chief, Philip Hammond, reiterated Thursday that there are no plans to replace its current ambassador to Washington.<\/p>\n
“It isn’t for other countries to decide who we appoint as ambassadors and if I ever need any advice from Nigel Farage, I’ve got his number, and I’ll give him a call,” Hammond told the ITV network. “Tell him not to hold his breath.”<\/p>\n
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The British political party that helped carry the nation toward an exit from the European Union picked a former top deputy as its new leader Monday to replace the firebrand Nigel Farage as he shifts to building his personal ties with President-elect Donald Trump. The selection of Paul Nuttall, a European Parliament member, seeks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3507,"featured_media":92231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4479],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n