Nigel Farage may be top of the polls for next month’s European elections with his new Brexit Party but that is not the only reason why he has had a good week.

Farage is 20 minutes into our interview when Robert Mueller’s report into Donald Trump’s links with the Russians is published and he interrupts the conversation to take a call from his lawyer.

For two years Farage has been dogged by reports that Mueller was investigating him and his Brexit allies over alleged links to the Kremlin — indeed since they were famously pictured alongside a beaming, newly elected US president in the golden lifts of Trump Towers.

“So I hear I’m not even bloody mentioned,” he says into the phone.

Faintly, the solicitor…