Rupert Lowe earned more than £10k from Elon Musk’s X in one month
The far-right politician has made more from posting on the platform than any other MP
Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe received over £10,000 from Elon Musk’s platform X in a single month.
Analysis of the register of MPs’ financial interests by PoliticsHome reveals that since being elected as a Reform MP in July 2024, Lowe has raked in over £70,000 from posting on the platform.
Last September, PoliticsHome found that Lowe had earned almost £40,000 from posting on X since he was elected, far surpassing Reform UK MPs Farage, Richard Tice and Lee Anderson.
By the end of May 2026, Lowe had earned £72,441, including registering more than £10,000 in payments in April alone.
Lowe, who shares around 10 posts per day on the platform, and has over 770,000 followers, has made the most money out of any other MP from his social media activities.
Since purchasing Twitter in November 2024, Musk has changed to a different monetisation model, paying users based on engagement from Premium subscribers rather than advertising revenue.
Lowe uses provocative language in his posts, and has been amplified by Musk himself, who has backed Restore Britain several times in the last week alone.
Farage has earned £19,866 in total from X since the 2024 general election, while Tice and Anderson have earned more than £6,953 and £6415 respectively.
Luke Charters, MP for York Outer, has become the first Labour MP to register income from X, having registered £556 from the platform in May.
Olivia Barber is a reporter at Left Foot Forward
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