After helping to bankroll Donald Trump’s crushing 2024 election victory, rumours are now flying that Elon Musk could donate $100m as a ‘f*** you Starmer payment’ to help make Nigel Farage the next UK Prime Minister.
Musk has already vocally expressed his distaste for the Labour leader, branding him ‘two-tier Kier’ over claims that UK police treat some groups more harshly than others, and even suggesting that Sir Keir was setting up detainment camps in the Falkland Islands for rioters, which he was later forced to retract.
His political action committee America Pac spent more than $200m to help ensure a Trump win, including a $1m-a-day giveaway lottery in the marginal state of Pennsylvania.
Now The Times has reported that senior Conservative figures and business leaders beliee there is a real possibilty of Musk making a huge donation to Farage.
And writing on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), he appeared to endorse his friend Nigel Farage’s Reform Party.
After an account called Inevitable West posted ‘BREAKING: Former Tory minister Andrea Jenkins has joined Reform UK. Reform will win the next election,’ the billionaire tycoon reposted it, simply adding Yes’.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns became the MP for Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire at the 2015 general election and served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Skills before losing her seat in Labour’s 2024 landslide victory.
Musk’s reposted the tweet to his 206 million followers and it was subsequently liked 159,000 times.
On Saturday evening, Farage said he was unsure if Musk was planning to donate any money to Reform but the pair were in frequent contact and were good friends.
Elon Musk appeared to endorse Nigel Farage’s Reform Party with this post on his X platform – the two are known to be friends
Elon Musk’s America PAC donated $200m towards Trump’s reelection and the pair have been joined at the hip in recent months – and the Tesla CEO is known to be friends with the Reform leader
Nigel Farage speaking in Parliament after getting elected as an MP on his eighth attempt
Farage claps jubilantly while in attendance at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on the night of the 2024 US election
“All I can say is that I’m in touch with him and he is very supportive of my policy positions,” Farage told The Times.
“We both share a friendship with Donald Trump and Trump has said good things about me in front of Musk. We’ve got a good relationship with him.”
Given the depths of the Tesla CEO’s pockets, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch must be dearly hoping that reports are simply ‘fake news,’ as US President Donald Trump might say.
But leading business officials and Conservative Party bigwigs believe there is a genuine possibility that the the world’s richest man could be about to make a mega $100m donation to Reform which would transform British politics.
Such a move could turn Reform into the second party of British politics before new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has had time to establish her party’s new identity.
Donations from foreign individuals are illegal under UK election law, so if Musk to donate it would likely need to be through the British arm of his social media giant X.
President Donald Trump’s former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has also thrown his support behind Mr Farage.
A close supporter of Farage said: “Elon admires Farage and wants him to succeed.”
