AFP :
Concerns are growing in the UK as tech billionaire Elon Musk takes an increasingly close interest in Britain’s political scene, appearing to cozy up to hard-right firebrand lawmaker Nigel Farage.
With Musk named to a new position in the incoming US administration of Donald Trump, there are fears the world’s richest man could seek to influence London’s future ties with Washington.
On Wednesday, Farage, who leads the upstart anti-immigration Reform UK party, said he was in talks with Musk about making a donation to his party.
Writing in the Telegraph newspaper, Farage said “the issue of money was discussed” when he met the X owner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday. “There will be ongoing negotiations on that score,” the arch-Eurosceptic wrote, in comments that will likely unnerve the ruling Labour party and main Conservative opposition.
Newspaper reports have suggested that Musk is preparing to donate up to $100 million to Reform but Farage told the BBC the pair did not discuss figures.
Musk “described the Labour and Conservative parties as the uniparty, and left us in no doubt that he is right behind us,” Farage added.
