Nigel Farage is getting nervous about Brexit. Trump could be his life preserver.

“I'm trying to make the case," [Farage] said, "that a big, positive signal from a Trump administration that says they want a bilateral trade deal with the United Kingdom, that comes relatively early, would really be very good news."Such a move would upend U.S. policy toward the U.K. and the European Union. In April, President Obama visited London to lay out the dire economic consequences he said would befall the U.K. if it voted to leave the EU in June's referendum. "Maybe, at some point down the line, there might be a [bilateral] U.K.-U.S. trade agreement," Obama said. “But it's not going to happen anytime soon, because our focus is on negotiating with a big bloc — the European Union — to get a trade agreement done." If Britons voted for Brexit, Obama warned, the U.K. would wind up a diminished partner, relegated to "the back of the queue."Farage's proposal would move the U.K. to the front of the queue, sweep away the whole Obama-Clinton chessboard, roil the global economy, and, with great fanfare, imprint the Trump stamp on U.S. trade policy, possibly even before he's sworn in — all things that would seem to appeal to the president-elect. [Bloomberg BusinessWeek]