Musk’s comments come amid an ongoing feud with the U.K.’s governing Labour Party — and just days after the tech billionaire spoke out in support of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
“Musk’s support not just for Tommy Robinson, but also the AfD in Germany, shows just how big a problem he is for democracy as well as the reputation of those who cosy up to him like Nigel Farage and Liz Truss,” Labour MP Stella Creasy — whose constituency saw a major counter-demonstration against the far right amid riots last summer — told POLITICO.
Truss, the former British prime minister, has previously expressed support for Musk and said his proposed Department for Government Efficiency, set to feature in Trump’s second presidency, was “needed in Britain.”
Reform UK Leader Farage meanwhile met Musk at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in December and has talked up the prospect of receiving a donation from him. Reform — which has been at pains to distance itself from the far right as it takes on Labour and the Conservatives — declined to comment on Musk’s latest statements Thursday.
Robinson was imprisoned last year after he admitted to breaching a court order relating to false claims about a Syrian schoolboy he had made in a documentary. Musk on Thursday approvingly shared the documentary to his hundreds of millions of followers on X.
A second Labour MP, granted anonymity to speak candidly, called Musk’s language “dangerous,” warning that “at a time when communities need to come and work together, we have someone with a lot of influence sowing divisions and spreading hate.”
