Donald’s left me baffled, says Farage

NIGEL Farage warned the missile strike could make Syria more dangerous, not less.

‘I am very surprised by this. I think a lot of Trump voters will be waking up this morning and scratching their heads and saying “where will it all end?’’ he said. ‘As a firm Trump supporter, I say, yes, the pictures were horrible, but I’m surprised. Whatever Assad’s sins, he is secular.

‘Previous interventions in the Middle East have made things worse rather than better.’

His intervention is a dramatic turnaround in the pair’s alliance, which at one point saw Mr Trump publicly urge Theresa May to make Mr Farage the UK’s ambassador to Washington. Meanwhile, Ukip leader Paul Nuttall went further, condemning the attack as ‘rash, trigger happy, nonsensical and will achieve nothing’.

‘Too often rash responses to horrific situations are about the conscience of the attacker, rather than a clear-headed response to an awful situation,’ he said.