Nigel Farage’s friendship with Donald Trump was forged in a single moment of the 2016 presidential campaign, when almost all others abandoned the Republican nominee.   

It was October 2016. The Access Hollywood tape had just been released, revealing in shocking detail how Mr Trump had once privately bragged about sexually assaulting women. 

“When you’re a star, they let you do it,” Mr Trump was heard saying on the recording from around 2005. “You can do anything. Grab ’em by the p****. You can do anything.”

It was, most considered, the end of Mr Trump’s already slim hopes of reaching the White House. In public Republican congressmen distanced themselves from their own presidential candidate. …

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