After years of criticising Davos, Nigel Farage heads to Davos

Nigel Farage, who has previously accused Keir Starmer of being a ‘full-on globalist, hanging out with his mates at the World Economic Forum’, will attend the event this week. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

For years he has derided the annual gathering at Davos as a smug and conspiratorial meeting of enemies of the nation state. But this week, Nigel Farage will himself be rubbing shoulders with the “globalists” he has so reviled.

Farage’s itinerary at the Swiss ski resort remains unclear, although his Reform UK deputy, Richard Tice, said on Sunday he hoped Farage would get a chance to speak to Donald Trump, who is also attending the event run by the World Economic Forum (WEF).