{"id":30530,"date":"2025-01-05T17:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/elon-musk-turns-on-nigel-farage-and-calls-for-new-leader-of-reform-3\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T17:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:10:45","slug":"elon-musk-turns-on-nigel-farage-and-calls-for-new-leader-of-reform-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/elon-musk-turns-on-nigel-farage-and-calls-for-new-leader-of-reform-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk turns on Nigel Farage and calls for new leader of Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is unclear what prompted Musk to post message on X saying Farage \u2018doesn\u2019t have what it takes\u2019 to be Reform UK\u2019s leader<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has said Nigel Farage \u201cdoesn\u2019t have what it takes\u201d to be Reform UK\u2019s leader, hours after Farage refused to condemn the billionaire businessman for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/03\/musk-accused-of-politicising-of-young-girls-in-uk-to-attack-starmer\">his inflammatory comments<\/a> about Keir Starmer and Jess Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprise intervention, less than three weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/dec\/17\/elon-musk-and-nigel-farage-meeting-renews-reports-he-could-fund-reform-uk\">Musk met Farage<\/a> at Donald Trump\u2019s Florida home amid reports he could donate $100m (\u00a380m) to Reform, Musk used X, the social media platform he owns, to say: \u201cThe Reform party needs a new leader. Farage doesn\u2019t have what it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jan\/05\/farage-refuses-to-condemn-free-speech-hero-musks-remarks-on-jess-phillips\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is unclear what prompted Musk to post message on X saying Farage \u2018doesn\u2019t have what it takes\u2019 to be Reform UK\u2019s leader Elon Musk has said Nigel Farage \u201cdoesn\u2019t have what it takes\u201d to be Reform UK\u2019s leader, hours after Farage refused to condemn the billionaire businessman for his inflammatory comments about Keir Starmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}