Nigel Farage has said the way Number 10 has rejected his offer to act as a Trump administration go-between is "astonishing".
Fresh from his trip to US to meet President-elect Donald Trump, the UKIP leader told Sky's All Out Politics that it was not the way businesses and people in the "real world" expected things to work.
And he called for Britain's ambassador in Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, to resign because he is a "fanatical Europhile and part of the old regime" whose views would be "diametrically opposed to Trump's".
Mr Farage said: "Can you imagine if we were a business here, looking at Trump in America as somebody that we thought it was very important to form a close relationship with. What would you do? You would find somebody who had connections.
"I do have connections with Trump, more particularly with Trump's team, many of whom I have known for years, and yet the Government don't want in any way to talk to me informally.
"It says a lot actually about the way we are governed in this country. We are run by people that have never worked in the real world."
Mr Farage, who appeared on the stump with Mr Trump during his election campaign, was the first British politician to meet the billionaire since his victory.
Theresa May was 10th in line for a telephone call, which came more than 48 hours after the election result last week.
Mr Farage said that Mr Trump was "instinctively" an anglophile and this was a great opportunity for the Government.
He said Sir Kim was not the right person to be attempting to build a relationship with the Trump administration.
"His world view and the world view of the Trump team are going to be diametrically opposed," Mr Farage told Sky's Adam Boulton.
"I would have thought it would be more sensible to put someone there who was likely to get on with Team Trump."
A memo, written by Sir Kim shortly after Mr Trump's election victory framed the man who will be the 45th US President as an "outsider" who was "open to outside influence if pitched right".
He urged Mrs May to build on the "special relationship" and said his team had "built better relationships with his (Trump's) team than the rest of the diplomatic corps."
The UKIP leader also ruled himself out of any ambassadorial job, saying that "diplomacy" was not one of his chief skills.
The Government has insisted there will be "no third person" in the relationship with Mr Trump and that there were "well-established" channels of communication with his team.
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