Reform UK is in “open negotiations” with US billionaire Elon Musk about him donating to the social gathering, Nigel Farage has advised the RAYNAE.
The Reform UK chief stated the pair “did discuss cash” throughout a gathering on Monday at Donald Trump’s Florida retreat.
He added that the tech tycoon, a distinguished supporter and main donor to Trump’s re-election marketing campaign, was “totally, totally behind us”.
“He desires to assist us, he isn’t against the concept of giving us cash, supplied we are able to do it legally via UK firms,” he added.
It’s the first time Mr Farage has stated his social gathering is in talks a couple of potential donation from Mr Musk, the proprietor of social media web site X and carmaker Tesla.
Earlier this month, Farage stated that though Mr Musk was a political supporter, he had not requested for a donation and “one has by no means been supplied”.
As a US citizen, Mr Musk can not make private political donations within the UK.
However there have been experiences suggesting a donation may very well be made via the British department of X.
Chatting with RAYNAE political editor Chris Mason, Farage stated they “did not focus on particular numbers” when it got here to a possible donation, including the social gathering was “in negotiations” over the matter.
However he added that hypothesis the billionaire might make a donation as massive as $100m (£78m) was “for the birds”.
Farage has beforehand stated the UK’s election watchdog “would take a view {that a} donation that got here from an organization must be proportional to the scale of the corporate on this nation”.
Mar-a-lago assembly
It comes after Reform UK stated Farage, together with new social gathering treasurer Nick Sweet, met Mr Musk at Mar-a-Lago for an hour on Monday and had “realized an awesome deal from Musk in regards to the Trump floor sport”.
Farage posted an image of himself on X alongside Mr Musk and Mr Sweet, who was introduced as social gathering treasurer final week, standing in entrance of a portray of Trump that hangs contained in the Mar-A-Lago complicated.
He added “Britain wants Reform”, to which Mr Musk replied: “Completely”.
Reform UK thanked the US president-elect for permitting them to make use of the constructing for the assembly, including it confirmed the “particular relationship” between the UK and US was “alive and properly”.
Mr Musk has change into a distinguished critic of Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and has backed Reform UK to kind the following authorities in posts on his social media platform X.
Mr Musk, who was born in South Africa, donated $75m to US President-elect Donald Trump’s re-election bid, with $72m of that going to a political motion committee he arrange known as America PAC.
Mr Musk’s father Errol has advised the SpaceX and Tesla mogul may even be ready to change into a UK citizen to make a $100m donation to Reform UK.
Earlier this month, he advised GB Information: “I am eligible for British citizenship, so is he, I suppose.”
