The populist politician jetted into New York this week to launch World4Brexit at an exclusive event attended by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Phil Bryant, governor of Mississippi. Mr Farage had earlier travelled to the White House for a meeting with Donald Trump, who urged him to join forces with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. World4Brexit said it aims to highlight the benefits of Brexit for the UK and the international community, forge ties with other nations and encourage free trade, and campaign for democracy.
Mr Farage told the Washington Examiner: “It’s a big positive campaign that Brexit opens up doors.”
The body will give businesses in the US and the rest of the world the option of advertising the upside of trade without EU red tape.
The fundraiser, held at New York Athletic Club in Manhattan, comes as Mr Johnson this week stepped up planning for a no-deal Brexit.
Mr Farage told the Financial Times all donations to World4Brexit would be “above the board and legal”.
He said the group would serve as an “antidote” to the pro-European campaigns being funded by the billionaire George Soros.
The former UKIP leader said: “Guess who is funding all the negativity — it is one George Soros.
“So let’s not get mad — let’s get even.”
Monies raised, according to fundraising documents, would be used to “dig deep, find out who is really running the show”.
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11.42am update: ‘Mark my words, there is a General Election coming!’ - Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage has dismissed the notion Boris Johnson will be able to secure a better Brexit deal with the EU than his predecessor Theresa May, saying Brussels will offer him nothing more than “small cosmetic changes”.
Speaking on LBC, the Brexit Party leader said he believes the new Prime Minister will find it impossible to get a revised deal through Parliament as well as a no-deal Brexit, which may lead to a General Election being called.
Mr Farage said: “I don’t think they’ll five [sic] Johnson anything other than small cosmetic changes and that means he will not be able to get a version of that awful Withdrawal Agreement through the House of Commons before October 31.
“It is also my view that it’s utterly impossible to get a WTO Brexit through the House of Commons, just given the numbers, and the way that MPs feel.
“Mark my words, there is a General Election coming.
“And if you look at some of the people that Johnson has placed inside Number 10 to work for him they are the kinds of people who do work on elections, rather perhaps, than being inside an office for year after year after year.”
10.55am update: Boris Johnson’s Cabinet ‘most right-of-centre in recent times’
Radio host Iain Dale has called the Prime Minister’s new Cabinet the “most right-of-centre in recent times” but claimed there is “nothing wrong with that” because it has been put together for the sole purpose of delivering a clean Brexit.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage also praised Boris Johnson for purging Remainers from his Cabinet, handing the top roles to his fellow Brexiteers.
Mr Dale, a host of an evening show on LBC and a political commentator for CNN, backed Mr Johnson’s changes.
Writing for ConservativeHome, he said: “This is without doubt the most right-of-centre Cabinet in modern times – and for the avoidance of doubt, I see nothing wrong with that at all.
“It is a Cabinet designed with one aim in mind – to get us out of the EU by October 31.
“But the view that this is a total Leave Cabinet is for the birds. By my reckoning, 13 of the people sitting around the cabinet table voted Leave and 20 voted Remain.
“Clearly many of those have pivoted towards Leave since, and have all had to sign up to the possibility of leaving with no deal if necessary, and quite right too.”
10.03am update: UK to hold emergency budget in autumn ‘to stimulate economy’
Britain will hold an emergency budget in the autumn, a junior interior minister has said.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week ramped up no-deal preparation and speculation increased about the possibility of a General Election.
Mr Johnson has vowed to strike a fresh deal with the EU and increase the number of police officers by 20,000.
Kit Malthouse told Sky News: "The prime minister has also announced there's going to be an emergency budget in the autumn which will be designed to stimulate the economy.
“What you hope is that a more strongly growing economy will produce greater tax revenue which we can pay for some of the things that we want to do.”
But Mr Johnson has not announced an emergency budget and the finance ministry said it was up to the Chancellor Sajid Javid.
A Treasury spokesman told Reuters: "As usual, the Chancellor will announce the timings of any fiscal event.”
Usually an autumn budget is held between late October and early December.
9.25am update: Emmanuel Macron invites Boris Johnson to Paris for talks
Boris Johnson has been invited to the Elysee presidential palace in Paris for talks with his French counterpart.
During a phone conversation on Thursday, Emmanuel Macron congratulated Mr Johnson on his victory over Jeremy Hunt.
He also offered him the chance to travel across the Channel in the next few weeks to discuss Brexit "in compliance with the requirements of the European Union”, according to an Elysee source.
8.59am update: Nigel Farage issues warning to Boris Johnson over new adviser Dominic Cummings
Nigel Farage has attacked Boris Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings, calling him “hostile” and “an argument waiting to happen”.
Mr Cummings is seen as a polarising figure with some labelling him a genius and others saying he is divisive.
During the lead up to the June 2016 referendum, when he successfully ran the Vote Leave campaign, Mr Cummings clashed with Mr Farage as the group competed with Leave.EU to become the official pro-Brexit movement.
The Prime Minister this week hired Mr Cummings as a key adviser as he entered Number 10.
Mr Farage told MailOnline: “He is not the easiest person.
"He had this bizarre idea during the referendum of a second confirmatory referendum. I just hope he's dropped ideas like that.
"We found him very hostile indeed - hostile to all of us.
"I'm not saying he's not a very clever bloke. But he is a very controversial choice."
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