Elon Musk has dominated out giving Nigel Farage’s Reform UK a bumper £80 million donation.

The World’s richest man issued a two-word response as he was mobbed by reporters in Washington.

The Sunday Instances claimed main businessmen and Conservative Social gathering officers consider that Musk might hand over the money as a “f*** you Starmer” cost in his feud with the prime minister.

Requested by ITV whether or not he’d be splashing the money on Reform, he replied: “Er, no.”

Musk beforehand shared a publish on his X social media platform declaring Reform UK will win the following Normal Election.

Responding to the information that ex-Tory minister Andrea Jenkyns had joined the populist occasion, with the caption “Reform will win the following election”, the Tesla proprietor mentioned merely: “Sure.”

A shock new ballot confirmed Reform UK has overtaken Labour for the primary time, pushing Sir Keir Starmer’s occasion into third place.

Mr Farage’s occasion was on 24 per cent of public assist, in keeping with Discover Out Now – up two factors on final week.

Reform UK chief Nigel Farage informed GB Information he had “completely no concept” about any deliberate donations, however claimed Musk was “very supportive” of him.

He mentioned: “What I do know is that Elon Musk could be very supportive of me and what I am making an attempt to do.

“He thinks that if Reform do effectively within the UK, we are able to result in the identical type of change that he intends to do with Donald Trump in America.”

Conservative chief Kemi Badenoch heaped reward on Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s plans to slim down the scale of the state and enhance effectivity.

She argued that the West has “forgotten what the state’s goal is in nationwide life, now not asking, what it ought to or mustn’t do”.

“As a substitute utilizing state energy to proceed tinkering with each facet of life so as to obtain social justice, we sleepwalk right into a deliberate economic system much more oppressive and stagnant than thinkers of the 20 th century might have envisaged.”

She mentioned: “The perfect governments do just a few issues effectively, not many issues badly.”

In the meantime it has emerged that Tesla boss Musk – estimated to be price £264billion – blew greater than 1 / 4 of a billion {dollars} to make sure Trump’s election.

It included £238million for the America PAC (political motion committee) which labored to prove voters for Trump in key US states.