LONDON — Donald Trump should accept the result of the U.S. election if he loses to Kamala Harris, the Republican presidential hopeful’s top U.K. ally said.
As Americans head to the polls to choose their next president, Nigel Farage, a prominent Brexit campaigner and member of parliament who leads Britain’s Reform UK party, said Trump should not challenge the result as he did after losing in 2020.
“If it was clear and decisive then maybe it’s time [for Trump] to go and play golf at Turnberry,” Farage told the Telegraph newspaper during a visit to Trump’s home in Palm Beach.
And he added: “The whole point of voting is we don’t need to fight. It is what we fought two world wars for. We settle our differences with the ballot box.”
The Reform UK leader has long been one of Trump’s closest British allies. He was the first U.K. politician to meet him after his election victory in 2016 and will be the only British member of parliament at Trump’s home on election night.
Farage insisted he had never supported Trump’s 2020 claim that the election was stolen, and said he had made this point directly to the former president.
Elsewhere in his interview, Farage suggested Harris could quell unrest if she wins by pardoning Trump, who has been convicted of multiple felonies and faces sentencing later this month.
Farage said a pardon by Harris in office would “look magnanimous and it would dampen down potential tensions.”
