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Farage, who will
attend the event as a guest of Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant,
spoke at a Trump rally in Mississippi during the U.S.
presidential campaign and was the first British politician to
meet the president-elect after his victory, ahead of Prime
Minister Theresa May.
Farage spent decades campaigning for Britain to leave the
European Union and helped to force then Prime Minister David
Cameron to call the June 2016 referendum that resulted in the
Brexit vote.
Trump has said Farage - the former leader of the United Kingdom
Independence Party (UKIP) - would be great as Britain's envoy to
Washington, but the British government has dismissed the
suggestion.
Asked if he would be attending Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20,
Farage told Sky News: "I certainly am, I can't wait."
"The governor of Mississippi has invited me and I'm there for a
few days and it's going to be a great, historic event. In
America they've had a political revolution and it's complete;
the problem in Britain is our revolution is not complete because
the same people are still in charge."
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; editing by Kate Holton)
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