Elon Musk is looking at how Sir Keir Starmer could be ousted as Prime Minister before the next general election, according to new reports.
The X owner and Donald Trump ally is seeking to destabilise the Labour Government – of which he is a fierce critic – further than his existing social media attacks on the party’s top brass, people briefed on the matter have told the Financial Times.
“His view is that Western civilisation itself is threatened”, a source closely connected to Musk has warned.
Musk is said to have sniffed out the possibility of building support for alternative British political movements including Reform UK in order to force a change of PM before the next election, according to associates.
It comes amid a bitter row over grooming gangs – in which Musk has aligned himself with both the Conservatives and Reform against Labour – but, just days ago, Labour, the Tories and Reform all warned Trump about how the tech magnate might be putting the ‘special relationship’ at risk, Bloomberg revealed.
That came after Musk publicly disavowed Nigel Farage, apparently quashing speculation that the billionaire could make a large donation to his party in the near future.
Musk said “the Reform party needs a new leader” and that “Farage doesn’t have what it takes” – despite having posed with Farage and Reform UK’s treasurer Nick Candy at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago base in December.
But Farage hasn’t been entirely put off – he told LBC that he would be seeing the SpaceX owner later this month, and is planning to travel to Washington DC to Trump’s inauguration. Neither Starmer nor Kemi Badenoch are slated to attend.
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Top Tories issue dire warning over Labour’s ‘lack of credibility’ – ‘They can’t even give away Chagos!’
Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith launched into a scathing tirade at the party in power
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Labour’s multi-billion-pound Chagos Islands giveaway deal risks undermining the Government’s credibility even further, Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith has warned.
In a social media post this morning reacting to the news that Rachel Reeves is set to give a “growth speech” soon amid growing fears over the British economy’s future, Griffith launched into a scathing tirade at the party in power.
“How would a government which reportedly can’t even GIVE AWAY our sovereign territory (BIOT Chagos) without paying £9billion, and which has made up its own fiddled fiscal rules, have any credibility?” he asked. “That is what gilt markets see.”
With long-term borrowing costs in Britain soaring to their highest level since 1998, Reeves is expected to reassure bond investors and businesses about the economy, according to Bloomberg – with spending cuts, not more tax rises, her way to open up her dwindling fiscal headroom.
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