Reform UK leader has decried ‘globalist’ event but this year hopes to meet Donald Trump for Greenland talks
For years he has derided the annual gathering at Davos as a smug and conspiratorial meeting of enemies of the nation state. But this week, Nigel Farage will himself be rubbing shoulders with the “globalists” he has so reviled.
Farage’s itinerary at the Swiss ski resort remains unclear, although his Reform UK deputy, Richard Tice, said on Sunday he hoped Farage would get a chance to speak to Donald Trump, who is also attending the event run by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
In many ways it makes sense for a politician whose party is tipped to form the next UK government to go to Davos, given the wealth of networking opportunities at an event frequented by world leaders – Rachel Reeves among them this year – bankers, financiers and others.
Tice told the BBC that the intention was for Farage, who presents Trump as being his friend, to use the event as a chance to tell the president about his worries over the US threatening tariffs against the UK and other European nations as part of efforts to annex Greenland.
