Nigel Farage teams up with Trump campaign chiefs to launch Brexit lobby group In a meeting with Trump on Wednesday, the President reportedly expressed his wishes for Farage and Johnson to form a pact together

Nigel Farage has teamed up with Donald Trump-supporting Americans to form a new lobbying body to push for Britain to leave the EU.

A number of the President’s most avid supporters, including his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, attended a launch event for the group, World4Brexit, in New York this week.

Details of the body were revealed as Boris Johnson took office as the UK’s new Prime Minister on Wednesday.

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He has vowed to take Britain out of the EU by 31 October with or without a deal, something Mr Farage said he is skeptical about Johnson being able to deliver.

Farage-Johnson alliance

“If Boris [Johnson] does Brexit that is great, but every sense inside me says he will fail,” the Brexit Party MEP told the Financial Times.

The Brexit Party leader claimed President Trump had urged him to join forces with Mr Johnson in a bid to “realign” right-wing UK politics.

However, he shrugged off the notion of a pact between his party and the Conservatives, and even questioned whether Johnson was someone he could trust.

The World4Brexit initiative

Former members of the Trump election campaign, including far right architect Steve Bannon, are expected to give informal advice to Mr Farage on his fundraising initiative, which is apparently still in its “start up phase”.

Speaking ahead of the launch of the project at the New York Athletic Club in Manhattan, he reaffirmed that all donations made would be “above board and legal”.

According to fundraising documents seen by the FT, the money will not go towards paying Brexit Party candidates, but would be used to “dig deep, find out who is really running the show”.

The fundraiser, he said, was an “antidote” to similar projects run by pro-Remain organisations in the UK supported by billionaire Hungarian-born American George Soros.

“So let’s not get mad – let’s get even,” he added.

World4Brexit had been set up, he added, at the “American end” by US political strategist and Leave.EU advisor Gerry Gunster.

As a not-for-profit organisation, it can take donations ranging from $5 to $5,000.

Farage meets with Trump

On Wednesday, Mr Farage met with President Trump and said he wanted to see “a realignment of British politics” by seeing the Brexit Party leader work more closely with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The prospect of a general election has increased since the new prime minister came to office, with bookmakers now seeing it as an odds-on probability.

Mr Farage told the FT that there were “grounds for conversation” if he was “incredibly brave” and called a snap election. However, we said forming any sort of electoral pact was “not an easy thing” – especially given that a number of Tory MPs “loathe” him.

“If Boris does a Theresa May and drops the ball I will be the worst enemy he has got and in those circumstances I will try to get the Brexit party to replace the modern day Conservative party,” he said.