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Nigel Farage visited Donald Trump's New York headquarters on Thursday night raising further speculation that he could be offered a job by the president-elect.
US political reporters on watch outside Trump Tower in New York confirmed night Mr Farage entered the lift in the skyscraper which takes him to Mr Trump’s office. He left around an hour later without comment.
If, as expected, Mr Farage met with Mr Trump it will have been their third meeting since Mr Trump was elected US president just a month ago.
The Telegraph disclosed last weekend that Mr Farage could be given an informal role advising Mr Trump on US/UK trade relations, according to senior Republican figures.
The extent of contact between Mr Farage and Mr Trump will be intensely frustrating for Theresa May, the Prime Minister, who is yet to meet Mr Trump and has only spoken to him briefly by phone.
If Mr Farage is made an adviser it would mean that Mrs May is forced to deal with the former UK Independence Party leader.
Mrs May has already risked raising tensions with the US president-elect by rejecting his suggestion to give Mr Farage the job of British ambassador to Washington.
Mr Farage did not comment to reporters outside Trump Tower. Earlier on Thursday Mr Farage declined to say if he would meet Mr Trump, telling The Telegraph that he hoped to meet the team around Mr Trump and do some Christmas shopping in New York.
But he told Bloomberg in an interview in the US last week: “I am unashamedly promoting the idea of completely resetting the US/UK relationship. It would be a great thing to do in terms of trade.”
Steve Bannon, a key Trump aide, told Bloomberg: “His ideas will always be listened to seriously in a Trump White House.”
A spokesman for US senator Rand Paul added that “Nigel Farage will be an essential part in implementing a new treaty” between the UK and US.