Nigel Farage meets Elon Musk at Trump’s retreat

Reform Britain’s leader Nigel Farage and the party’s new treasurer Nick Candy have met US billionaire Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s Florida retreat.

The party said the pair “learned a lot from Musk about the Trump ground game” during an hour-long meeting at Mar-a-Lago on Monday.

It said they would have “ongoing discussions on other areas”, although no details were given.

It comes amid speculation that X boss Mr Musk, a key supporter and major donor to Trump’s re-election campaign, might donate to Reform UK.

Earlier this month, Farage said that although Mr Musk was a political supporter, he had not asked for any donations and “no donations were ever given”.

Faraz posted a photo of himself on Instagram with Mr Musk and Mr Candy, who were Announced as party treasurer Last week, stood in front of a painting of Trump that hung inside the Mar-a-Lago complex.

“Britain needs reform,” he said, to which Mr Musk replied: “Absolutely”.

Reform UK thanked the US President for allowing them to use the building for the meeting, and said it showed that the “special relationship” between the UK and US was “alive and well”.

Mr Candy – a former Conservative donor – has said he exchanged messages with Mr Musk after his appointment was announced, but declined to be involved in any conversations over a potential donation. After Mr Candy’s appointment, Faraz said, “We don’t know anything about Elon Musk except that he supports our position,” adding: “If people offered us money legally If it is, we will take it.”

Mr Musk has become a prominent critic of Labor Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and has backed Reform UK to form the next government in posts on his social media platform X.

As a US citizen, the billionaire cannot make individual political donations in Britain.

But there have been reports that donations could be made through the British branch of Ax.

Farage dismissed newspaper speculation that Mr Musk’s donation could be as large as $100 million (£78 million), calling the idea that Ax could make a donation of that size to any UK-based party “for the birds”. Was.

The leader of Reform UK has said the UK election watchdog will “consider whether donations from a company should be proportionate to the size of the company in this country”.

Mr Musk, who was born in South Africa, had donated $75 million to US President-elect Donald Trump’s re-election bid, of which $72 million was given to a political action committee he formed called America PAC .

Mr Musk’s father Errol has suggested the SpaceX and Tesla mogul might even agree to become a UK citizen in order to donate $100 million to Reform UK.

Earlier this month, he told GB News: “I’m eligible for British citizenship, I think he’s eligible too.”