JD VANCE IS A ‘FULL ON CONSERVATIVE’ SAYS FARAGE AS HE QUESTIONS LABOUR’S ABILITY TO WORK WITH TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Nigel Farage has questioned whether the Labour government will be capable of forming good relations with a Trump administration and revealed he has known JD Vance for over a decade, describing him as a ‘full-on conservative’.

Speaking to GB News, Nigel Farage said:

“Trump has announced his presidential running mate, speculation on this has been endless. It’s JD Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, a bestselling book.

“And Vance himself has come from a very poor, very difficult background.

“I’ve known JD for over a decade. He is a very intelligent, very distinguished guy but gosh, he’s a full-on Conservative.”

Responding to comments made by Vance about the UK, Farage said:

“[JD Vance]was talking to a conservative conference, and he was a bit tongue in cheek in what he said. But it raises quite a big fundamental question.

“I was very, very pleased that the Prime Minister managed to get a few minutes on the phone to Trump. I thought that was very important that he did that.

“But you’ve got David Lammy as Foreign Secretary who said very disobliging things about the President. I presume this JD Vance clips not going to go down very well.

“If Trump wins this election, these days nothing’s a dead cert apart from death and taxes. But assuming Trump does win, and you’ve got quite a hawkish conservative vice president in the form of Vance, is this Labour Party capable of forming good relationships with America? Because it does matter.

“It matters because right at the heart of this is, of course, our membership of NATO and without the Americans, NATO, frankly, is nothing.

“I’ve always seen us as being a very important bridge between America and the rest of Europe.

“John Healey, Defence Secretary, has announced a big Labour review. So where we go with this, whether NATO is our priority or whether perhaps we’re going to join a European defence union: All of these things matter hugely, and I found that defence was barely discussed during the whole general election.”