Aussie billionaire Gina Rinehart endorses Nigel Farage for UK PM at Trump dinner

Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart has thrown her support behind Brexit architect Nigel Farage as Britain's next prime minister after dining with him at Trump's Mar-a-Lago.

Exclusive: Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart has endorsed Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as Britain’s “prime minister in waiting” and hit out at the nation’s surging crime and rising taxes.

Mrs Rinehart dined with Mr Farage at US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club on the weekend at the black-tie “Helping a Hero” gala and this masthead obtained exclusive pictures of the pair from the Florida event.

The mining magnate told this masthead she was thrilled that she ended up sitting alongside the conservative Brit at the lavish event.

Mr Farage is climbing in the British political polls and latest figures showed he is the UK’s preferred prime minister.

Gina Rinehart and Nigel Farage at Mar-a-Lago. Picture: Supplied

The pair attended Donald Trump’s Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party. Picture: Supplied

Wearing a black diamanté gown, Kidman hat and armed with a bright red ‘Trump’ clutch at the event, Mrs Rinehart said this week: “I always look forward to time with Nigel Farage.

“A true English gentleman, standing there in his velvet coat, he must have been awfully hot, because everyone was, including me in my Kidman hat, but from Nigel, not a whisper of complaint.

“And not a whisper to let me know, that he was there to be honoured with a prestigious hero’s award.

“I only learnt while sitting next to him at the dinner, by reading the program.

“He asked, I think nicely, how it happened that I was sat next to him at dinner, I responded, ‘by magic!’”

In an Ipsos poll last week, for the first time Mr Farage overtook British PM Sir Keir Starmer as the preferred UK leader with 33 per cent of support compared to Sir Keir with 30 per cent.

Mrs Rinehart said Mr Farage, the 61-year-old mastermind of Brexit, has the right ingredients to lead the UK including “courage, common sense, patriotism and conviction”.

She also criticised the rising crime problems in London and said many Britons are throwing their support behind the rising Reform UK party.

Gina Rinehart, Nigel Farage and Kimberly Fletcher of Moms for America. Picture: Supplied

“In my recent stays in London this year – other than for such radical left demonstrations – I didn’t see any Bobbies walking the streets,” Mrs Rinehart said.

“Thousands of terrific Brits are leaving the UK thanks to high taxes and increasing crime.

“Just ask the cabbies as I frequently did and they’ll point to increasing crime, they can’t wait until Nigel Farage becomes prime minister.

“I wish Nigel all the very best, he’ll have so much to do, to turn his beloved UK around, like the rock star Argentinian President (Javier) Milei is doing, rescuing his country from more than 100 years of excess government and its people from the poverty that socialism brings.”

Mr Farage said earlier in the week he had spoken with President Trump while he was in the US and said he was “very, very unhappy” with the BBC.

It comes after revelations emerged that the public broadcaster spliced together clips from President Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech to make it portray that he encouraged his supporters to storm Capitol Hill.

President Trump has launched $1bn legal proceedings against the BBC.