Nigel Farage’s US trip to be investigated after he attended Trump rally

Nigel Farage tweeted about being in the USA (Picture: Adrian Smith) The decision to allow Nigel Farage entry to the US to attend a Donald Trump rally is being investigated. Despite all but essential travel from the UK being banned during the coronavirus lockdown, Mr Farage was given an exemption by US officials under a ‘national interest’ clause. Bennie G Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who chairs the committee on homeland security, has requested all documents and information that led to the decision and said the trip raised ‘troubling questions’. He wrote in a letter to Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of...