'Did he say sorry for making you look a bit daft?
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was left feeling embarrassed after being reminded during a BBC interview of what tech billionaire Elon Musk said about him.
Appearing on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Farage was shown a post on X by Musk in which the owner of Tesla wrote: “The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn’t have what it takes.”
Musk and Farage had clashed in recent months over Musk’s support for far-right agitator Tommy Robinson, who is in prison for contempt of court after repeatedly making defamatory claims about a Syrian refugee.
Kuenssberg told Farage: “I don’t want to intrude on private grief, but he said that you weren’t really up to the job. Did he say sorry for making you look a bit daft?”
Farage replied: “We have spoken since.”
Kuenssberg then asked again: “Did he say sorry?”
Farage replied: “Do you know what, he has been attacking half of Trump’s cabinet this week. Elon says what he wants to say at any moment in time.”
Asked again what Musk had said to him, Farage said: “He was just trying to encourage me in a few policy areas – ones I wasn’t prepared to go down.”
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Forward
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