Three weeks after a very public riftBritish populist British politician Nigel Farage said on Wednesday that his relationship with Elon Musk was “good” and that the two men had spoken last week.
Mr. Farage, in a brief interview with the New York Times, said that Mr. Musk, the richest man in the world, had remained open to a considerable donation to Reform UK, the insurgent anti-immigration party. Mr. Musk has already shown the desire to manipulate an influence in British politics, even calling for the imprisonment of the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The prospect of an enormous gift from the multi -loving technology tycoon led some politicians to suggest new restrictions on foreign donations.
Farage called Musk as “heroic figure” and said that discussions on a donation were “to what he had an appropriate vehicle”. In Great Britain, foreign donations are authorized but must be made through a company registered in the United Kingdom.
“Nothing is closed as far as I know,” said Farage one day after a fundraising which he said reported more than a million pounds (1.25 million dollars), many ‘Money in British politics.
Mr. Musk did not respond to a message on Wednesday requesting comments sent by e-mail.
Mr. Musk seemed ready to influence British politics in the name of the reform, a party with a populist platform that closely reflects that of Mr. Trump. But Mr. Musk seemed to turn to Mr. Farage Suddenly at the beginning of the month, declaring on social networks: “The reform party needs a new leader”.
The Rift seemed to have been exposed to Mr. Musk’s request that an far -right agitator, Tommy Robinson, be released from prison, where he is detained for contempt for the courtyard. Mr. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has several criminal convictions, notably for aggression and fraud, and a history of Islamophobic statements.
“I know that many Americans see him as a great champion of freedom of expression, but I simply do not consider him adapted to our party,” said Farage. “And I’m not someone who moves very easily.”
But he threw it as a simple disagreement. “We have very similar goals in certain regions, slightly different accents in others,” he said, noting that in previous conversations, Mr. Musk had shared lessons from the winning campaign of Trump in swing states.
“There are many things we have learned that we will implement in the coming years,” said Farage.
Beyond the deep pockets of Mr. Musk, Mr. Farage said he was considering means to exploit other Americans who gave Mr. Trump. During his visits to the Mar-A-Lago station of Mr. Trump, Mr. Farage said that he had been approached by a “number of people” exclaiming: “We want to give you money! We want to give you money!
He took care to say that Reform UK would not accept money from American citizens directly – only those who have “active British commercial companies”. This could include the significant and rich and rich British expatriate community in the United States, which he said that the reform plans to target.
The revelations are likely to arouse a new concern among the British Labor Government and the Conservative Party, which are already uncomfortable as to the rapid rise in the reform of the fringe of national politics to a party that accumulates in the heels of these two dominant parties in the election.
The reform has undertaken to reduce “waste” public spending, to increase the military budget, to abandon key climatic targets and to postpone Great Britain to oil and gas. And he wants to remove diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Mr. Farage, like Mr. Trump, took a hard line on immigration and rallied against the “awakening” ideology “. The reform promised to freeze immigration.
Mr. Farage was bubbling on the gala at a million dollars in reform on Tuesday evening. “It looks like peanuts in an American audience, but a fairly new British political party, it’s a pretty good evening,” he said.
“The dinner was to collect funds, but it is also a question of extending our influence,” he added.
