Elon Musk called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as Reform UK leader yesterday, hours after Farage had described the billionaire businessman as "a hero", in what is likely to be a preview of how a chaotic Donald Trump presidency could affect British politics.
Farage, the de facto owner of Reform, "doesn't have what it takes", Musk said on X, the social media platform he owns, less than three weeks after the pair held seemingly warm talks at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida home. "The Reform party needs a new leader," he wrote.
Musk, who has sent a mass of largely misleading posts in recent days about various aspects of UK politics, appeared to endorse Rupert Lowe, the Great Yarmouth MP, as a possible replacement, saying statements he had read from Lowe "make a lot of sense".
The sudden change of heart from Musk is highly embarrassing for Farage, who had just spent much of a TV interview earlier yesterday refusing to condemn the businessman for inflammatory comments about the prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, calling the latter a "rape genocide apologist".
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