LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. billionaire Elon Musk stated on Sunday that Nigel Farage ought to step down because the chief of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK celebration in an abrupt withdrawal of help.
“The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn’t have what it takes,” Musk stated on his social media platform X.
Musk had seemingly backed Brexit campaigner Farage and posed for {a photograph} with him as lately as final month.
Media had speculated that Musk – a detailed ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump – may make an enormous money donation to Reform to assist it problem Britain’s dominant Labour and Conservative events.
However on Saturday, Farage distanced himself from feedback made by Musk in help of British anti-Muslim activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, recognized by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, who’s serving a jail sentence.
Farage responded to Musk’s put up on Sunday saying: “Well, this is a surprise! Elon is a remarkable individual but on this I am afraid I disagree. My view remains that Tommy Robinson is not right for Reform and I never sell out my principles.”
Final month, Musk endorsed the Different for Germany, an anti-immigration, anti-Islamic celebration labelled as right-wing-extremist by German safety companies forward of nationwide elections in February.