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The former UKIP leader was likened to the 70-year-old American on the grounds that he, as Street-Porter said, "would build a fence across the country" in the same way that Trump wants to build a wall.

"Can I just say that is utter nonsense," he fired back. "We don't want to take the drawbridge up. We just want to control who comes over the drawbridge. Let's just have a fair [immigration] system."

Ruth Langsford had earlier brought up the subject of the race to the White House, asking Farage how he ended up speaking at a Trump rally.

"I was invited by the Governor of Mississippi. I turned up to be told there's a rally with Donald Trump, and ten minutes before, I was told 'Donald's going to introduce you'," he recalled.