Elon Musk is ‘right behind us,’ boasts Farage

LONDON — Nigel Farage boasted that Elon Musk is “right behind” him — and raised the prospect of the tech tycoon opening up his checkbook to help Farage’s insurgent Reform UK party.

The arch-Brexiteer, who is a staunch ally of Donald Trump and now leads Reform UK, visited Musk at the U.S. President-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort on Monday.

Shedding light on the stateside trip in a Telegraph op-ed Tuesday night, Farage said “money was discussed” with the X owner, who has been tapped up to lead a government efficiency drive under Trump. Musk has made supportive noises about Reform while feuding with Britain’s center-left Labour government.

“He described the Labour and Conservative parties as the uniparty, and left us in no doubt that he is right behind us,” Farage wrote of the meeting.

The Sunday Times reported last month on fears among rival parties in Westminster that Musk is considering donating up to $100 million to support Farage’s fight. It would amount to the largest single donation in British history, although both camps have poured cold water on the figure reported.

Following their meeting Monday, Farage wrote: “Inevitably, following such intense media speculation, the issue of money was discussed, and there will be ongoing negotiations on that score.”

Any help from Musk would be a headache for Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The X owner has spent time this year publicly beefing with Starmer over policing, social media regulation and economic policy.

Farage said Musk had been “very generous with his time,” explaining how Trump’s campaign had bagged the White House for a second time in November’s presidential election. “I have come home with copious notes of how they increased the turnout, voter registration and so much more,” Farage wrote.

Farage’s former Director of Communications Gawain Towler meanwhile said Musk might be enticed to donate purely to enjoy “the naughtiness” of disrupting British politics.

“For the cost of half a toenail, I can disrupt the entire British establishment? Ooh … that might be fun,” Towler said on LBC.

Reform’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice would not be drawn Wednesday on whether his party would accept donations from Musk. “Let’s wait and see,” he told Sky. The U.K.’s election finance laws state that overseas citizens cannot make donations of more than £500 to U.K. political parties.

But transparency experts have said such rules could be easily circumvented by donating through companies or what are known as unincorporated associations.

Asked if Americans should influence British politics, Tice said of Musk: “He’s an international businessman with very significant interests here.”