Elon Musk has publicly backed Ben Habib's Advance UK social gathering – simply months after turning away from Reform UK.
Mr Habib, whom Nigel Farage changed as Reform's deputy chief with Richard Tice final summer season, launched his personal social gathering in late June this 12 months.
Talking to GB Information on the time, he billed it as a brand new "political power on the British political panorama" – however denied it could "break up the Reform vote".
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Now, the world's richest man has endorsed it on his social media platform, X, as he took a brand new sequence of interventions into British politics following his fury on the reemergence of the rape gang scandal earlier this 12 months.
"Advance UK will really drive change. Farage is weak sauce who will do nothing," Mr Musk stated.
Mr Habib then advised GB Information that he and Mr Musk had been in touch since January.
"He shares three beliefs with me. First, Western civilisation faces its finish, the way in which it's being ruled," the Advance UK chief stated.
"Second, so far as the UK is anxious, Farage just isn’t the reply. And now, third, Advance UK, is the reply. There may be nice love and concern in regards to the UK within the US. Elon Musk is one in every of them.
"The UK's betterment is way assisted by the protecting umbrella of individuals like him," he added.
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In December final 12 months, the Tesla tycoon had met Mr Farage and Reform UK treasurer Nick Sweet at Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort for crunch talks.
Rumours of a multi-million-pound donation adopted, however by no means got here to fruition, earlier than a public fallout between Mr Musk and the Reform chief erupted.
Mr Farage later stated Musk was solely "attempting to encourage" him when he referred to as for his sacking.
"We talked about it," he advised the BBC. "He was simply attempting to encourage me in a couple of coverage areas, ones I wasn't ready to go down."
A Monetary Instances report in March then hinted the SpaceX chief would think about backing a rival to Reform UK led by Rupert Lowe.
And on Tuesday, he lent his help to Mr Lowe and Mr Habib's personal political pushes.
"I want to assist fund authorized actions towards corrupt officers who aided and abetted the rape of Britain, per the official Authorities inquiry," the Tesla chief stated in response to damning findings by the latter's impartial Rape Gang Inquiry.
The unofficial investigation stated it had discovered little one sexual exploitation in 85 native authorities throughout Britain.
In additional interventions, Mr Musk vowed: "This insanity wants to finish," in response to information of Lucy Connolly's imprisonment, and shared a picture of a St George's flag following "Operation Elevate the Colors".
Mr Lowe advised The Telegraph: "Musk has been enormously supportive of our efforts to lift consciousness across the Pakistani rape gangs all through the whole 12 months. I’ve communicated with him over the course of this 12 months."
Amid reviews earlier this 12 months that Mr Musk was contemplating backing Mr Lowe, Reform UK's deputy chief Richard Tice vowed that the social gathering solely managed to win 5 seats finally summer season's Basic Election as a result of Nigel Farage was spearheading the operation.
He advised GB Information: "I used to be thrilled and invited Nigel to get caught in, get severe.
"I'd taken it [Reform] from nought or one per cent to within the low teenagers. I knew that Nigel may drive us forwards and with out Nigel none of us would have been elected."