Nigel Farage blasts President Donald Trump for ‘failing to keep promises’

Nigel Farage criticised Donald Trump for breaking his pledge to avoid foreign wars, calling the eight-month conflict with Iran a mistake that contributed to Republican losses in the US midterm elections. His comments matter because they mark a sharp change from his initial support for the conflict and link its costs to a major political setback for Trump’s party.

Farage said the war had driven up petrol and diesel prices and argued that the cost of living was central to the defeat. He said he supported limited strikes to slow Iran’s nuclear programme but not a prolonged war; Republicans lost control of both houses of Congress. At the same event, new Reform UK defence spokesman Angus MacIntyre urged greater support for Ukraine, while Farage repeated his view that NATO’s eastward expansion helped provoke Russia’s aggression.