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 's Reform UK has come joint first in a national opinion poll for the first time. The survey by Find Out Now put the insurgent party level with Labour on 25%. The Conservatives are five points behind with 20% in the poll of 2,078 British adults carried out yesterday.

Following Elon Musk's call for Nigel Farage to step down as Reform leader, do you think it's time the right-wingers had a new face in charge?

STORY: Billionaire Elon Musk said Nigel Farage should quit as leader of Britain's right-wing Reform UK party on Sunday.It marks an abrupt shift from Musk's previous support for Farage ......who he seemingly backed and posed with in a photograph last month.

A dividing line has opened up between the world's richest man and Reform leader Nigel Farage over the former's support for jailed activist Tommy Robinson.

Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as leader of Reform UK, just weeks after it was claimed the multi-billionaire was in talks to donate a large sum to the party. In a post on his social media site X, Musk said Farage "doesn't have what it takes" to lead the party.

A Reform MP has slammed a government assessment into Elon Musk's posts as "pathetic" amid concerns about the danger they pose to UK security. Rupert Lowe said he had asked the Home Office for the cost of the probe to taxpayers by the counter-extremism unit.