Brexit was great but Donald Trump becoming the president of the United States "is Brexit plus, plus, plus" Nigel Farage told a party thrown for the former Ukip leader in Washington on the eve of Mr Trump's inauguration.

The party organised by US public affairs firm Goddard Gunster was held on the top floor of the five star Hay Adams hotel overlooking the White House on Thursday night.

It was attended by around 200 guests including Arron Banks, the millionaire supporter of Ukip, Conservative MP Nigel Evans, Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative funder. Mr Trump did not attend.

Mr Farage told an audience of 200 at the party: “Brexit was great but Trump becoming the president of the USA is Brexit plus, plus, plus.”

He added: “I have spent most of my life in politics as the patron saint of lost causes, having to spend several hours every day drowning my sorrows with English pints of beer because that’s all I ever did.

“I really believe this for most of my life what happens in America in terms of social trends or developments we follow four or five years later. America is the leader.

“Now I would like to think that in our own little way was the beginning of what going to be a global revolution and Trump’s victory is part of that.”

He added: “2016 would be looked at as a year of great pivot, a year of great change, a year when nation state democracy reasserted itself, a year when proper decent values reasserted themselves.

“And in the year 2017 much of this revolution will continue across much of what is left in Mr Juncker’s European Union.”

“A mixture of joy and disbelief – there is a still disbelief. The time now is to end that disbelief and say ‘we did it’!”

Likening Mr Trump to former Republican president Ronald Reagan, he said Mr Trump was the “only person I have met in my life who makes me feel like an introvert”.

He said: “I am proud to have played my part not just in Brexit but in helping this man become the 45th President of the United States of America.”