Former White House strategist Steve Bannon sat down with The Guardian, offering his take on everything from Boris Johnson's win the the recent UK election, to why minority support for Trump is on the rise, and finally - why the GOP needs its own version of AOC.

Bannon says that Boris Johnson's sweeping UK victory over Labour's Jeremy Corbyn is a "victory for populism," noting how he was fascinated by focus groups on British TV during the election campaign. "These were Labour voters and they were not going to vote for Labour and the reason was they kept asking, 'How are these programmes going to be paid for?' What I was most impressed with was the specificity and the granularity of the questions.."

"People don't want to be spun any more. They don't want to be BS'd any more. They want to know what you're laying out and how you're going to effectuate it and, most importantly, how you're going to pay for it and 'if paying for it means more increased taxes or less opportunities for me, you're not going to get my vote no matter how good it sounds'."

"I think the Democrats, on whether it's Green New Deal or healthcare for illegal aliens or whatever, ought to take the lessons of the working class. These are lifetime Labour members that voted for a Tory," Bannon added.

Bannon regards Johnson as neither a nationalist nor a populist and likens the prime minister's vision of Brexit to "Singapore-on-the-Thames" – very different from the version hoped for by those who voted for him. Even so, Bannon argues that both the Conservatives and Republicans should aim to seize their traditional rivals' territory by appealing to the working class. -The Guardian