Priti Patel made her comments on Sky News.Priti Patel has sparked a fresh war of words with Nigel Farage after branding Reform UK a “pop-up act”.The shadow foreign secretary hit out as the Tories vie with their right-wing rivals for Donald Trump’s approval.Both Patel and Farage are in Washington DC ahead of Trump’s inauguration as US president for the second time on Monday.Farage has a personal friendship with Trump, but Patel insisted the Conservatives’ longstanding links with the Republican Party were more important.On Sky News this morning, presenter Trevor Phillips asked her: “Nigel Farage ... seems to be a favourite down in Mar-a-Lago. Are you going to have to make peace with Nigel Farage in order to get a hearing in the White House?”But the senior Tory told him: “I just don’t think that’s a relevant point. At the end of the day, the Conservative Party and the Rep