Elon Musk is in “ongoing negotiations” about making a possible mega-donation to Reform UK, Nigel Farage has revealed.
Farage and party treasurer Nick Candy travelled to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago base on Monday, where they met both the X owner and Vice President-elect JD Vance.
The historic meeting added fuel to the fire that Musk was weighing up a splurge of nearly £80million on Reform, which would octuple the largest donation in British political history – £10million to the Conservative Party in 2023.
Musk has so far denied reports of a splurge that large – while Farage has instead talked up tactics, hailing Trump’s electoral strategy as Reform casts its eye over upcoming elections.
Writing in The Telegraph, Farage said: “I have come home with copious notes of how they increased the turnout, voter registration and so much more, and all of this I intend to implement as part of the professionalisation of our party.
“It is also heartening to listen to Elon speak about UK politics with such deep care. He regards the mother country of the English-speaking world as being in very deep trouble.
“Inevitably, following such intense media speculation, the issue of money was discussed and there will be ongoing negotiations on that score.”
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Badenoch skewers Labour over ‘catastrophic’ schools Bill
Kemi Badenoch has joined a pile-on into Labour’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
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Kemi Badenoch has joined a pile-on into Labour’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill after a blistering take-down by the Shadow Education Secretary.
Neil O’Brien had laid into the Bill with a series of bullet-point barbs on social media, which read:
“Labour schools plan:
- Remove freedom to pay good teachers more
- Remove freedom over non-teaching staff
- Remove freedom over curriculum
- Remove freedom over admissions
- Remove freedom over Qualified Teacher Status
“Back to the failed model of civil servants trying to run everything from Whitehall.”
Badenoch added: “This is how Labour destroys institutions. They create a nice label for terrible ideas with catastrophic consequences. It takes decades to unpick the mess.”
Inflation disaster as CPI rate increases to 2.6% in blow to Labour’s economic agenda
Inflation in the UK has risen to its highest level in six months in another blow to Chancellor Rachel Reeves and the Labour Government’s record on the economy.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveal the consumer price index (CPI) rate jumped to 2.6 per cent for the 12 months to October 2024.
According to the ONS, inflation jumped by 0.1 per cent on monthly basis and CPI rose by 0.1 per cent – compared with a 0.2 per cent drop in November 2023.
Starmer casts down ‘Two-Tier Keir’ moniker in ‘rare flash of emotion’
Sir Keir Starmer has cast down his ‘Two-Tier Keir’ moniker
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Sir Keir Starmer has cast down his “Two-Tier Keir” moniker and several others in a fresh interview on his final overseas trip of 2024.
Speaking to The Sun in Estonia, Starmer cast down his various nicknames, damning opinion polling, and unfairly-applied justice as he pleaded for more time to be judged on his Government.
In what the newspaper branded a “rare flash of emotion”, Starmer said he had “had a lot worse over the years” – and defended Britain’s police forces in the wake of the summer’s unrest.
“They had been subjected to the most awful scenes,” he said.
“They had to deal with parents rushing back to the scene and, within hours of me shaking their hands, they were back on the front line because thugs were throwing things at them.
“The very same officers. And what was being said on the front line… ‘Two tier policing’.
“I’m going to stand with frontline police officers doing their best to keep order on our streets, and I’ll stand with them every single time.”
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