Elon Musk has laid into Sir Keir Starmer once again after a new poll showed the Prime Minister’s popularity has plummeted to an all-time low.
Fresh data from pollsters at JL Partners showed that Starmer’s support has tumbled from a net positive seven per cent favourability rating to a staggering -22 per cent in just five months – behind Musk, much to the Tesla owner’s glee.
Musk sits at a -17 net favourability rating with the British public – and having ripped into Labour for going “full Stalin” over its farm tax raids just days ago, the tech magnate has had another pop at its leader.
Responding to news of the JL Partners poll, Musk jabbed that it was a “low bar” to be more popular than the Prime Minister.
Starmer has tumbled from a net +7 favourability rating to a staggering -22 in just five months, new polling shows
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But the Donald Trump ally has set Reform tongues wagging after another social media post predicted a wipeout for “Establishment political parties” at the next election.
Musk wrote: “The Establishment political parties are going to get utterly crushed in the next UK election.”
In reaction, a Reform UK source told GB News: “Elon Musk is right – both the Tories and Labour have damaged free speech and introduced draconian measures online.
“Reform UK will be the only party going into the next election truly supportive of a free speech.”
Musk was responding to an August article about a child rapist being spared jail over the prisons overcrowding crisis captioned: “The people overseeing this legal system are coming after Elon Musk. The UK needs a reboot.”
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‘The Establishment political parties are going to get utterly crushed in the next UK election,’ Musk said
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That caption was in reference to Musk’s summoning to a Commons inquiry into the rise of “harmful” AI content online earlier this week.
Labour’s select committee chairwoman Chi Onwurah MP called on the Tesla owner to explain his alleged “promotion of pure disinformation” on his social media platform, X.
But Musk hit back in kind, warning MPs that “they will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens”.
With a “feud” stirring between the SpaceX magnate and the British Government, Labour’s own peers have told the party to smooth things over.
And one man has emerged as a “bridgehead” in cooling trans-Atlantic tensions following Donald Trump’s election victory: Nigel Farage.
The Reform UK leader has been tipped as ‘a bridgehead, both to President Trump and to Elon Musk and others’ by Peter Mandelson
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The Reform UK leader has been tipped as “a bridgehead, both to President Trump and to Elon Musk and others” by Peter Mandelson – who himself is seen as a potential next British ambassador to the US.
“If I were the Government here, I’d be asking the embassy in Washington DC to find out who [Musk’s] other British friends are… [and use them as a] bridge” to Musk, he told a Times Radio podcast on Tuesday.
“You can’t ignore [Nigel Farage] – he’s an elected Member of Parliament. He’s a public figure.”
“He’s a bridgehead, both to President Trump and to Elon Musk and others… National interest is served in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways,” Lord Mandelson said.
