Once a Conservative supporter, she distanced herself from the party and became an independent councillor in 2007, before joining UKIP.
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Speaking after being elected as the new leader of UKIP on Friday, at the party’s annual conference in Bournemouth, she told journalists that “the jury is still out” on Trump, but that it was “for the American people to decide”.
“We will fight to make sure the British people have their say before the United Kingdom has to accept a deal that nobody gave consent to”, he said.
The new leader is expected to steer the party in a different direction than the charismatic Farage, and is generally seen as a safe pair of hands.
“Ukip is in great shape”. The new leader must put it back together.
Asked if she would attempt to build bridges with Mr Carswell, she replied: “If Douglas would like to suggest a meeting I would happily entertain it”.
She told The Guardian that “ideologically the Tories are doing the UKIP dance now”.
Mr Farage received a standing ovation from the conference centre as he walked out to the sound of David Bowie’s Heroes.
It set out three criteria by which the success of the government’s Brexit negotiations should be judged: whether Britain is outside the single market and free from European regulation, whether it has control of fishing rights in its territorial waters, and whether it has got rid of EU passports.
Outgoing leader Farage thanked the party delegates at the conference for their support. “I think it’s extraordinary that the speaker of the Ukip group in the Assembly should be replaced as the speaker by someone who’s just resigned in the assembly”.
“There are people who are liberals in the Labour Party and people in the Conservative Party who will be feeling increasingly uncomfortable about the direction of their party”. Is he going to go on sniping from the sidelines.
Ms James said: “Magpie May you have stolen so far our two per cent defence spending, you’ve also tried to steal our grammar schools but I think you are going to have a few difficulties getting that one through”.
Speaking at Ukips annual conference in Bournemouth, Farage described Britain voting to leave the European Union – which he said was the culmination of his lifes work – felt like a fairy-tale that had come true.
A senior member of Ukip has said he fears “for the very future of our party” unless the in-fighting that has racked the organisation is resolved.
Frontrunner Diane James, the most well-known of the contenders, has insisted she will not be “Nigel-like or Nigel-lite”.
Ms James had been regarded as the favourite to succeed Nigel Farage, who quit as leader following the UK’s vote to leave the EU.
Mr Hamilton, who only found out about the so-called purge after being told by reporters, said it was a “rather weird way” to unite a party.
Mr Farage said he was fully behind Ms James and urged the rest of the party rally around her.
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“Ukip does have to make some fundamental changes, some quite big surgery is needed”.
