The threads connecting Donald Trump to the U.K.’s Brexiteers—people like Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage—have never exactly been difficult to trace. “I am increasingly admiring of Donald Trump,” Johnson recently gushed to conservative lawmakers in his orbit. “Imagine Trump doing Brexit. He’d go in bloody hard. . . . There’d be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he’d gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere.” Nor has Trump been shy about his admiration for Johnson whom, on the eve of his trip to hobnob with Theresa May, he called “a friend of mine” who’s been “very supportive.” In the face of such public effusiveness, the subtler links between Brexit’s Bad Boys and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon have at times faded into the background. But when reports emerged that Bannon and Johnson were rubbing shoulders across the Atlantic, they did not necessarily come as a surprise. After all, the former Breitbart chief is drawn to chaos, and nowhere has chaos reigned more completely in recent months than in Britannia.

Not surprisingly, it appears Bannon’s links to the British anti-establishment stretch beyond Johnson alone. In an interview with Reuters, the wannabe populist kingmaker explained he has been in touch with prominent Brexiteers Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg, too. Describing the triumvirate as a “deep talent bench” of possible contenders for May’s precarious position, Bannon characterized Johnson as “his own guy” whom he has “texted a lot.” While neither Johnson or Rees-Mogg immediately responded to Reuters’s request for comment, Gove’s spokesperson said Gove had once “briefly encountered” Bannon, and that the two had hashed out a set of meetings to talk U.S. politics that had never actually taken place.

Bannon is not a newcomer to the Brexit project. Before aligning with Trump, he identified the U.K.’s burgeoning anti-establishment, anti-immigrant sentiment long before the Brexit campaign officially kicked off. He launched Breitbart London in 2014, and hired Raheem Kassam, who has also worked for Farage, as its editor. The day after Britain voted to leave the E.U., Bannon invited Farage onto his radio show. “The European Union project has failed,” Farage announced. “It’s a great accomplishment,” Bannon replied. “Congratulations.”

Until recently, as the populist euphoria surrounding Brexit turned into a political slog, Bannon had turned his efforts to forging ties with other members of the European far-right. Now, however, as the Brexit debate moves toward a titanic final battle over the terms of the Britain’s separation from the E.U., Bannon has returned to London, zeroing in on the opportunity chaos affords. He recently launched The Movement, an organization, he told the Daily Beast, that intends to unite right-wing factions across Europe, ultimately ushering in an international populist revolt. During Trump’s visit, he embedded himself in a luxury Mayfair hotel to court far-right leaders—an effort, he told the Beast, that was “so successful that we’re going to start staffing up.” He added, “Everybody agrees that next May is hugely important, that this is the real first continent-wide face-off between populism and the party of Davos. This will be an enormously important moment for Europe.”

Some amount of public sentiment seems to be in Bannon’s favor. According to Reuters, a poll conducted last week shows that more than one-third of British voters would “support a new right-wing party committed to quitting the bloc,” and that most would prefer Johnson, and not May, to negotiate the terms of Brexit with E.U. leaders. Yet the question of whether Brexit’s leaders will accept Bannon into the fold remains. Despite the overlapping interests between Bannon and the three aforementioned Brexiteers, there is a basic difference in their end goals. Driven by a combination of ego and eurosceptic ideology, Johnson, Gove, and Rees-Mogg all want to leave the E.U. and—despite various denials—likely take May’s place in the process. But Bannon, an eternal outsider, has grander schemes in mind. Just as he once described Trump as a “blunt instrument” employed to carve out his populist-nationalist movement (“I don’t know whether he really gets it or not”), Bannon seems to be sharpening his new British friends to serve as tools in his effort to dismantle the E.U. altogether—a proposition that may cause even the most eurosceptic among them to balk. After all, if Gove, Johnson, or Rees-Mogg do succeed in taking May’s place, they will be left to navigate the mess.