Trump adviser hails Farage's election surge as 'resurrection of Brexit spirit' across UK
EXCLUSIVE: Sebastian Gorka, a London-born advisor to the Donald Trump White House, reacts to the outcome of the UK elections held on Thursday.
The UK election has proved that "fake conservatism is dead" in the United Kingdom and the "spirit of Brexit has been resurrected,", according to a close confidant of Donald Trump.
Keir Starmer will take over from Rishi Sunak as Britain's 58th Prime Minister after the Labour Party won a landslide victory over the Conservatives, who have been in power for 14 years.
The Labour Party won 412 of 650 seats in the UK Parliament, while the Conservatives were forced down to just 121 - their lowest in history. Cabinet ministers including Defense Secretary Grant Shapps were among those voted out.
But Nigel Farage, a pro-Brexit and anti-immigration candidate who is pals with Donald Trump, won a seat in Parliament for the first time as a member of the new Reform UK party - which calls for net-zero immigration.
Sebastian Gorka, a British-Hungarian-American who served as a White House aide to Trump and remains a fierce MAGA loyalist, told the Daily Express US that he is thrilled about Farage's appointment.
"The UK election results represent a watershed statement by people of Great Britain: the fake conservatism of the post-Thatcher era is officially dead," he told the Daily Express US, throwing shade to Sunak's Conservative Party.
“Nigel Farage is now an MP, and the Tories trounced to third place in so many districts, the spirit of Brexit has been resurrected.”
He concluded: “The future of pro-sovereignty, pro-UK politics is now unequivocally in the hands of Nigel and Reform.”
Reform UK won five seats, including one for Farage in the seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, securing a place in Parliament on his eighth attempt. Reform, however, actually had a larger share of the vote than the Liberal Democrats who came third and undercut support for the Conservatives and even grabbed some voters from Labour.
Starmer said in his victory speech: "Have no doubt that we will rebuild Britain. Brick by brick we will rebuild the infrastructure of opportunity."
Starmer said it would take time, but his government would get the NHS "back on its feet," secure the borders, improve public safety and cut electric bills - while relying on homegrown clean energy.