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Nigel Farage is heading to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to strengthen the anti-Chagos deal message straight with Donald Trump, because the US president’s open contempt for Sir Keir Starmer places the controversial islands deal in critical jeopardy.

The Reform UK chief revealed the dinner plans at Guido Fawkes’ Save Chagos Boat Party, the place he painted an more and more optimistic image of the marketing campaign to kill the settlement.

“President Trump has almost understood the deal, but I will be dining at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow night and we will reinforce the message,” he instructed the gathering.

Farage pulled no punches in his evaluation of the Mauritius settlement, calling it “the worst deal in history” and “an absolute betrayal.” He urged supporters to maintain up the strain, saying: “We have got to keep fighting, we have got to keep the pressure up, we must not let our foot off this pedal, but for first time in this battle… this feels more than winnable.”

He added: “We think this is the central plan for this Government’s foreign policy and we are beating them back.”

Trump unloads on Starmer

Farage’s Florida journey lands at a second of acute rigidity between Washington and Downing Street, with Trump publicly and repeatedly humiliating the Prime Minister over Britain’s dealing with of the Middle East disaster and the Chagos query, experiences GB News.

The set off was Starmer’s preliminary refusal to open RAF bases — together with Diego Garcia — to American strike missions. Trump’s response was withering. “That island… It’s taken three, four days, for us to work out where we can land there. It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours, so we are very surprised,” he mentioned.

“This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with,” Trump added, having individually instructed reporters the Prime Minister had been “very uncooperative” and had “ruined relationships.”

His most brutal verdict got here when he allegedly dismissed Starmer as “a loser who has no future” — a characterisation that went additional than something he had beforehand mentioned publicly in regards to the Labour chief.

‘Act of nice stupidity’

Turning to the Chagos deal itself within the Oval Office, Trump mentioned: “I will say the UK has been very, very uncooperative with that stupid island that they have, that they gave away and took a 100-year lease; having to do with, perhaps, indigenous people claiming the island that never even saw the island before. What’s that all about?”

He had already fired a gap shot on the settlement on Truth Social, the place he labelled it an “act of great stupidity.”

Starmer finally buckled, opening RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia to “limited defensive” US operations lower than two days after slamming the door. The reversal did nothing to chill the temperature — the connection between the 2 leaders, which had began on cautiously civil phrases, has now deteriorated into one thing significantly extra hostile.