Elon Musk has privately discussed with allies how Sir Keir Starmer could be removed as UK prime minister before the next general election, according to people briefed on the matter.
Musk, the world’s richest man and key confidant of US president-elect Donald Trump, is probing how he and his rightwing allies can destabilise the UK Labour government beyond the aggressive posts he has issued on his social media platform X, the people said.
“His view is that western civilisation itself is threatened,” one of the people added.
Musk has sought information about whether it might be possible to build support for alternative British political movements — notably the rightwing populist Reform UK party — to force a change of prime minister before the next election, according to associates.
In the UK parliamentary system, prime ministers wield power because they lead the party with the most MPs.
Several prime ministers in recent decades, including Sir Tony Blair and Boris Johnson, have won big majorities at elections, only to exit mid-parliament because of their waning popularity.
The chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, who has been appointed by Trump to co-lead a project to rein in US government spending, has taken a keen interest in British politics over the past six months, and made increasingly strident criticism of Starmer’s government.
Over the past week he has demanded a new national inquiry into historic grooming cases involving sexual exploitation of girls by gangs of mainly British-Pakistani men in several UK towns and cities.
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Many issues with crime in the UK at the moment, particularly in relation to sexual assault. There is a lot of talk about who the perpetrators are, and regardless of who is committing these crimes, the UK government literally voted AGAINST a government inquiry into the R* gangs. What right minded politician DENIES looking into massive instances of gang rp???
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