Nigel Farage: Trump wants a 'good' future UK-US relationship

Nigel Farage has stressed that Donald Trump wants a "good" future relationship with the UK.

The Ukip leader said that the president elect "got" what the UK and US had gone through together in the past - and criticised President Obama's treatment of Britain.

In an interview with Fox News, Farage, who met with billionaire Trump on Saturday, said he was sure people would come to accept the US election result.

And he put growing violent protests against the outcome of the election down to "full-time professional student protesters".

Farage told Fox that he wasn't surprised at the outcome of Tuesday's election.

"Because of the domination of the liberal left media, people are now nervous about expressing conservative views", he said.

"They will say one thing to a pollster, and do another thing when it comes to a polling booth".

The 52-year-old MEP described it as "very regrettable" that President Obama had taken an "incredibly negative" view about the UK during his tenure in office.

"He was happy to see us parceled up and chucked into this new European state", Farage said.

He said that Obama's comments and approach had added to the number of Britain's voting for Brexit.

But Farage maintained that Trump and his team "got" what the UK and US had gone through together in the past.

"They want us to have a good relationship in the future", he said of Trump's team.

Asked whether be believed the American people would eventually accept the result, Farage answered: "The only people moaning are the full-time professional student protesters.

"By the way, none of them voted. They can't get out of happy and yet they're happy to go out and protest".