Labour ‘unlikely’ to accept Farage’s offer to become UK’s ambassador to Trump, says treasury secretary

Treasury secretary says Labour 'unlikely' to accept Farage's 'interlocutor' offer. Source: Sky News

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00:00I'm asking you whether you'd take advantage of his offer.

00:03It's free. I think that's probably unlikely.

00:06My advice to Mr Farage would be he might want to concentrate

00:09his efforts on the constituents in Clacton that elected him

00:11to offer this as opposed to spending his time

00:13in the United States of America.

00:15He is close to Trump.

00:16Trump listens to him because Trump tells the world

00:19that he listens to Nigel Farage.

00:22Why would you snub the offer of help?

00:26That's a help for the country,

00:28unless you're putting now your party's interests

00:32and dislike of Mr Farage before the country's interests.

00:35I'm sure Mr Farage would be pleased

00:37you're making the case for him.

00:38I mean, look, the counterfactual here is that

00:40we do not have influence and we do not have relationships.

00:42That's just not true.

00:43Karen Pearce, our ambassador in the United States,

00:46the team, the foreign secretary,

00:48people that work in government here in Westminster

00:50have got relationships with President-elect Trump,

00:53Vice President-elect.

00:54Yeah, but none of them get so invited to Mar-a-Lago.

00:58None of them gets photographed in Trump Tower.

01:01Why don't you use this man who's offering you help?

01:03As I say, I think he should focus on working

01:05with his constituents in Clacton

01:06who deserve a bit of a full-time MP

01:08as opposed to a transatlantic commentator.