Nigel Farage has caused outrage by choosing to spend the first two days of Parliament’s summer recess helping Donald Trump.
The UK reform leader is flying to Washington this week, expected to address the “Mass Deportation” event in the US capital on Tuesday.
It’s worth remembering that Farage never actually managed to “carry out mass deportations” as he revealed this plan for asylum seekers arriving in the UK last week.
While he was successful with his campaign to get Britain out of the EU, there has been a spike in net migration to the UK since Brexit.
However, the Clacton MP has defended the anti-Asylum protests that have swept across the country over the summer – and his fellow MPs are expected to start debating it once parliament returns.
Farage is also expected to testify before Congress on Wednesday on the topic of “free speech,” although this will be the first UK Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) of the new parliamentary session.
Freedom of speech is a sore subject between the UK government and the US, given that Vice President JD Vance has often criticized Europe for its perceived lack of free expression.
According to the Mirror, Lib Dems culture spokesman Max Wilkinson said: “Farage playing Truant in the early days of the autumn term so he can go to another MAGA jet set tells you everything you need to know about the man.
“He’s such a big Trump cheerleader these days that he might as well be wearing a stars and stripes Lycra suit and a magic pompom.”
He added: “He should put his constituents first and do his job in Parliament to fly to America to help his comrades Trump and Vance interfere in British politics.”
News of Farage’s plans for the week comes as a new poll, the I-Tribune, reports, found Reform UK would win a landslide of 400 seats if an election were held now.
The right-wing party would secure 35% of the vote, compared to a paltry 20% for Labour – a disastrous result that reflects how damaging the government’s first year has been.
The poll also found that 41% of respondents said they thought Farage – who has promised to deport 600,000 illegal migrants during his first term in office – could solve the migrant crisis, compared to just 14% who feel the same way as Starmer.
