Make no mistake, Farage has a real Musk problem
The IndependentYou know that moment when your child gets home from school and you know something bad has happened? Well, in this story it’s Nigel Farage who’s fallen out with the school’s Mr Flash – Elon Musk. And Farage is worried that his longstanding best friend, Donald Trump, might take Elon’s side because they seem inseparable – always hanging around the playground together, sniggering at the back of the classroom, Elon letting Don copy his algebra homework. Having played an outsized role in the US presidential election in November – few can doubt Musk’s significance, both in terms of financial muscle and his alleged recalibration of the X algorithm to promote and amplify Trump’s messages – it looks like the world’s richest man is turning to the UK for his next political playground. One minute Farage is doing the best mates act at Trump’s house in West Palm Beach with Musk – and all the talk is of an imminent game-changing donation to Reform from the world’s richest man.