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Nigel Farage discussed fronting far-right group led by Steve Bannon
Source: The Guardian
Nigel Farage discussed fronting far-right group led by Steve Bannon
Footage shows Brexit party leader calling Bannon’s plan a ‘fightback against globalists’
Peter Walker and Paul Lewis
Wed 22 May 2019 16.34 BST Last modified on Wed 22 May 2019 19.00 BST
Nigel Farage discussed the idea of fronting a global alliance of populist and far-right politicians being put together by the controversial former White House strategist Steve Bannon, it has emerged.
Farage said he would be keen to take the role after Bannon discussed the idea of forming a group based around populism and “economic nationalism”, with potential members including Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines leader who is accused of presiding over mass rights abuses and who has admitted authorising extrajudicial killings.
In discussions spanning 2017 and last year, the Brexit party leader also discussed the concept in detail with Mischaël Modrikamen, a far-right Belgian politician who worked with Farage in Brussels.
The idea later became an initiative called the Movement, a Brussels-based foundation led by Bannon for rightwing populist parties.
Bannon had claimed the operation would provide campaign help for like-minded parties in the European elections. But the Movement foundered after a Guardian investigation revealed the operation could be illegal in most of the countries in which he planned to intervene.
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Footage shows Brexit party leader calling Bannon’s plan a ‘fightback against globalists’
Peter Walker and Paul Lewis
Wed 22 May 2019 16.34 BST Last modified on Wed 22 May 2019 19.00 BST
Nigel Farage discussed the idea of fronting a global alliance of populist and far-right politicians being put together by the controversial former White House strategist Steve Bannon, it has emerged.
Farage said he would be keen to take the role after Bannon discussed the idea of forming a group based around populism and “economic nationalism”, with potential members including Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines leader who is accused of presiding over mass rights abuses and who has admitted authorising extrajudicial killings.
In discussions spanning 2017 and last year, the Brexit party leader also discussed the concept in detail with Mischaël Modrikamen, a far-right Belgian politician who worked with Farage in Brussels.
The idea later became an initiative called the Movement, a Brussels-based foundation led by Bannon for rightwing populist parties.
Bannon had claimed the operation would provide campaign help for like-minded parties in the European elections. But the Movement foundered after a Guardian investigation revealed the operation could be illegal in most of the countries in which he planned to intervene.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/22/nigel-farage-discussed-fronting-far-right-group-led-by-steve-bannon
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