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.

Elon Musk’s drift to the far right and his burgeoning clash with the U.K government is part of a wider plan to oust Prime Minister Keir Starmer before the next election and plot the ascension of a far-right government,

A timeline of Reform leader’s relationship with the tech billionaire - These two figureheads of the right don’t always

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has held private discussions with allies about how British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer could be unseated before the next general election, according to a report by The Financial Times.