Kemi Badenoch took a swipe at Nigel Farage over rumours Elon Musk is ready to donate to Reform UK.

The Tory chief questioned whether or not the tech billionaire will give the rebel occasion any cash throughout a grilling on BBC Radio 4’s In the present day programme.

She stated the Reform chief “says an entire load of issues”, including: “I do not say them until they’re true.”

Pressed on why Mr Musk would donate to Reform and never the Conservatives, Ms Badenoch stated: “I do not suppose he is truly giving them something. I believe he stated that he wasn’t.

“All we have seen is Nigel Farage saying he’ll give me cash and Mr Farage says an entire load of issues. I do not say them until they’re true.”

The Tory chief additionally insisted Reform’s supply to voters is “not ok” and “not actual conservatism” as she was grilled on not setting out extra coverage positions.

She stated: “Six weeks is all that we have now finished. However what I might say to the Reform supply is that it isn’t ok, it isn’t actual conservatism, it isn’t primarily based on ideas, it is all about what it’s in opposition to. We’re about what we’re for.”

Elsewhere, Ms Badenoch stated that Andrea Jenkyns, the previous Tory minister who defected to Reform, doesn’t “like me” however “I do not actually care”.

Requested about defections to Reform from the Conservatives, she stated: “With a few of these individuals, Andrea Jenkyns, for instance, it is very private – don’t love me.”

Pressed on why she thought Ms Jenkyns disliked her, Ms Badenoch stated: “Truthfully, I do not actually care.

“There are a great deal of different individuals who do like me. It is politics. Some individuals will, some individuals will not… There’s this nice music by Baz Luhrmann that you recognize, bear in mind compliments you obtain, overlook the insults, referred to as Everybody’s Free to Put on Sunscreen. That is kind of how I attempt to reside.”

She stated that if individuals are members of a celebration “simply because they wish to be a part of the brand new massive factor, or they wish to be a part of whoever is main within the polls, then they do not imagine in what we’re about”.