Elon Musk has privately discussed with allies how Sir Keir Starmer could be removed as UK prime minister before the next general election, according to people briefed on the matter.
Musk, the world’s richest man and key confidant of US president-elect Donald Trump, is probing how he and his rightwing allies can destabilise the UK Labour government beyond the aggressive posts he has issued on his social media platform X, the people said.
“His view is that western civilisation itself is threatened,” one of the people added.
Musk has sought information about whether it might be possible to build support for alternative British political movements — notably the rightwing populist Reform UK party — to force a change of prime minister before the next election, according to associates.
In the UK parliamentary system, prime ministers wield power because they lead the party with the most MPs.
Several prime ministers in recent decades, including Sir Tony Blair and Boris Johnson, have won big majorities at elections, only to exit mid-parliament because of their waning popularity.
The chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, who has been appointed by Trump to co-lead a project to rein in US government spending, has taken a keen interest in British politics over the past six months, and made increasingly strident criticism of Starmer’s government.
Over the past week he has demanded a new national inquiry into historic grooming cases involving sexual exploitation of girls by gangs of mainly British-Pakistani men in several UK towns and cities.
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I do not like Musk's ideology or opinions. He is promoting hatred and spreading misinformation. His strong influence must be stopped before it's too late
@B2CRY6D2wks2W
It's a foreign advisor trying to oust the UK governement he should be sanctioned.
@B2C6LX32wks2W
People with money should not have say in politics. Especially if they are not a citizen of the country.
He should mind his own business and stop interfering with the democratic system in other countries (NB, the UK is not the only country involved, he is also trying to affect the result of the upcoming German elections).
If British nationals started interfering with American politics, they would be told to mind their own business. Mr Musk should be told that! And as for the end of Western civilisation as we know it, how would he define "Western civilisation"? What the far right political parties across Europe are threatening to impose? Intolerant, bigoted and subject to the demands of the billionaire oligarchs who are funding them? Forcing highly qualified women (the majority of university students in most European countries, if you check!) to stay home and bring up families with as many children… Read more
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I feel that just because you have money can't just buy your way into politics otherwise it's essentially far-right.
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Better him than Bill Gates or George Soros.
@B2D48LP2wks2W
What Musk is wanting to do to Europe and the UK is absolutely dangerous, he must be sanctioned and arrested. Foreign interference is a crime.
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