Nigel Farage has predicted that he could be prime minister before Donald Trump leaves office in four years in a worldwide “political tide” of Right-wing election wins.

The Reform UK leader told Republicans at a party to celebrate Mr Trump’s inauguration that he believes he will win the next election, which he said could come sooner than Sir Keir Starmer’s five-year term.

He called the president-elect’s victory the start of a “political tide that is going to sweep across the Western world”, and said Americans were “lucky” to be entering four years of Mr Trump’s second term.

Speaking at a party hosted by the Brexiteer businessmen Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore in Washington on Friday, Mr Farage set a deadline for his ambition to replace Sir Keir in Downing Street.

He said: “I honestly believe that what you’ve seen here is going to be a political tide that is going to sweep across the Western world.