Reform UK leader steps up pressure on Keir Starmer as he threatens to hold his own hearings into grooming gangs if the governnment does not

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is said to be looking at how he and his right-wing pals in the US can disrupt the Labour government and remove Keir Starmer as Prime Minister

Elon Musk has said Reform UK needs a new leader because Nigel Farage “doesn’t have what it takes”. The tech billionaire’s comments came just hours after Farage described him as “a hero”. His latest intervention on UK politics casts serious doubt on claims he was prepared to make a substantial donation to Reform.

Nigel Farage said Musk's comments came as a "surprise" and suggested the apparent fallout was over the jailed far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

Elon Musk targeted Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage, saying he "doesn't have what it takes" and the party "needs a new leader."

MAGA billionaire Elon Musk trained his chaotic political posts on Britain on Sunday, extending a multi-day meltdown that has gone from calling for the release of a jailed fascist Islamophobe to calling for the head of Nigel Farage,

Musk has cut ties with far-right British politician Nigel Farage as he champions divisive activist Tommy Robinson.

Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as leader of Reform UK in a surprising U-turn hours after the British politician refused to endorse some of the tech billionaire’s latest online claims. “The Reform party needs a new leader. Farage doesn’t have what it takes,” Musk wrote on X, his social media site, on Sunday afternoon.

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.

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.