Mr Musk’s allyship with Mr Farage would seem like a natural fit, given that the Reform leader’s relationship with Mr Trump goes back much further. The pair first met in 2016, shortly after the president-elect’s first election victory, and they are thought to have remained allies since.

Nigel Farage insisted the pair are still friends despite disagreeing over far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Nigel Farage has told Sky News he "can't be pushed or bullied" by anybody after Elon Musk said the Reform MP "doesn't have what it takes" to lead his party.

Nigel Farage has said he and Elon Musk are still friends but warned he "can't be bullied" after the Tesla boss called for a new Reform UK leader.

Nigel Farage has insisted he is still friends with Elon Musk and has spoken to him since his online attack that the Reform MP “doesn’t have what it takes” to lead his party. In an interview with Sky News, Mr Farage responded to the fall-out, saying: “Of course we’re friends. He just says what he thinks at any moment in time.”

Reform MPs, including Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson, have been accused of profiting from “spreading hateful rhetoric” after it emerged they’ve made thousands of pounds from posting on the social media site X.

The suddenness with which Musk has cast aspersions on his seeming soulmate raises the question of how long Trump will want to be in cahoots with

Elon Musk has suggested that Reform UK needs to replace Nigel Farage with a new leader. The Tesla tycoon said Mr Farage, who founded the party and is credited with its recent surge in the polls, “does not have what it takes”.

Musk's escalating criticism and mocking of European leaders and governments, which he has done repeatedly via X, the social media platform he owns, has sparked a backlash from

Nigel Farage has said he is on “very good terms” with Elon Musk after the Tesla boss said that Reform UK needed a new leader. Mr Farage told BBC’s Newsnight “I don’t think there’s any long term rift” with the billionaire,