Nigel Farage arrives at Trump Tower in December 2016 in New York City | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Nigel Farage will attend Trump inauguration ‘It’s going to be a great, historic event,’ says former UKIP leader.

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage will attend Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, the Brexit campaigner told Sky News Thursday.

Farage, who lent his support to Trump at a Mississippi rally during the U.S. campaign, will attend the ceremony as a guest of Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant.

Farage has compared the tycoon’s election win to the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, saying Trump had a “message of hope and optimism” for the Republican Party.

The veteran Brexit campaigner styled himself as a mediator between the incoming U.S. government and Theresa May, and was the first British politician to meet Trump after his electoral victory. However, May's government was quick to reject Trump's suggestion that Farage would make a good British envoy to the U.S.

"I can't wait," Farage told Sky News. "It's going to be a great, historic event... In America, they've had a political revolution and it's complete; the problem in Britain is our revolution is not complete because the same people are still in charge."