Farage’s Wannabe UKIP Successors Are Not Such Huge Fans of Trump
- Nuttall likes Trump’s ieas but calls him the ‘wrong candidate’
- Evans expresses concerns about president-elect’s ‘misogyny’
Nigel Farage at Trump Tower on Nov. 12.
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Days after a grinning Nigel Farage posed with Donald Trump in front of the Trump Tower’s golden elevator, the leading candidates to replace him as leader of the U.K. Independence Party are distancing themselves from the U.S. President-elect.
The front-runner, Deputy Leader Paul Nuttall, said that Trump was the “wrong candidate” even though he liked “the whole anti-establishment movement.” His rival, Suzanne Evans, went further and expressed concern about Trump’s treatment of women. They spoke in separate interviews aired on Thursday by Channel 4 News.