Speaking to BBC Radio 4 Tuesday, the Reform UK leader dismissed the report as “entirely theoretical” and “pure speculation.”
Farage said the story was “complete news to me, I’ve heard nothing of the kind like this.”
And he claimed that he had never discussed money with Musk: “I’ve never solicited a donation from him, and one has never been offered.”
Either way, Farage argued that U.K. rules make a donation to his right-wing challenger party through the British arm of the X social media giant Musk owns unlikely.
“The Electoral Commission would take a view that a donation that came from a company would have to be proportionate to the size of the company in this country,” he said. “And so the idea that X Corp could give $100 million to any political party, I think, is, frankly, for the birds.”
Nevertheless, Farage said “of course I’d accept money” — and reeled off a few potential uses for it.
