Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has distanced himself from Elon Musk’s support for jailed far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson. The tech multi-billionaire added his voice to calls to release Yaxley-Lennon, who was jailed in October after admitting contempt of court by repeating false claims against a Syrian refugee.
Farage has been proud to show off the support of Musk, flying to Florida to meet the owner of social media site X, who helped President-elect Donald Trump win the US election. But Musk’s support for Yaxley-Lennon is uncomfortable for Farage, who has made it clear over a number of years that he does not want him in his political party.
Welp, thieves fall out, as the saying goes.
On Friday, Health Secretary Wes Streeting
hit out at[criticized] Musk’s attack on the government’s handling of grooming gangs, calling it “misjudged and certainly misinformed”.Musk had posted a series of messages on X, accusing Sir Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute gangs that systematically groomed and raped young girls, and calling for safeguarding minister Jess Phillips to be jailed.
I hereby call for Musk to be jailed. This is a fun game, and very useful.
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And the following day, Musk put the boot into Farage:
Apologies; I see you have since posted about this.
No need to apologize!