Happy Hour at the Hay-Adams With Nigel Farage, Brexit’s Bad Boy
“You go into a bar like this at night and they’re out drinking, meeting people,”
said Mr. Farage, who is 53 and confirmed a separation from his wife last year.
They can if they want to!”
Back home, the political party that Mr. Farage headed for years and used to orchestrate Brexit, UKIP, voted last week to oust its leader, Henry Bolton, after it was revealed
that his girlfriend had made racist remarks about Meghan Markle, Prince Harry’s bride-to-be.
Curiously, this special relationship has not endeared him to the British establishment in D. C.; when the embassy had a party for Mr. Trump’s inauguration, Mr. Farage was not among the hundreds who received an invitation, despite the fact
that he is in town half a dozen times a year, by his own assessment.
“I don’t get it,” Mr. Farage said, shaking his head angrily.
When he was in town this time last year, he dined with the president, the first lady, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner
and Rick Scott, the governor of Florida, at Trump Hotel.
And the same month Mr. Trump won the election, he tweeted
that Mr. Farage should be named ambassador to the United States, sending the British government into an uproar.
The self-proclaimed “Bad Boys of Brexit” were in town for the Conservative Political Action Conference, where
Mr. Farage was to be a keynote speaker the next day, just a few hours after President Trump spoke.