Nigel Farage has cashed in on £5,400 from Elon Musk’s social media company X, official filings have revealed.
Fellow Reform UK MPs Lee Anderson and Rupert Lowe were also paid personally by the site late last year.
The trio received payments after agreeing to “monetise” their accounts, later being handed certified grey ticks.
Reform UK MPs have been able to rake in more than £10,000 between them since July, with Farage unsurprisingly emerging as the highest paid of the three.
However, no other MPs from other parties have declared similar payments from the social media giant.
Speaking to The Telegraph, a Labour source said they were not aware of any MPs being paid by X.
But Reform UK suspects MPs from other parties were making money from X without declaring it.
Anderson said: “Reform UK MPs are being open and transparent about any payments received from X.
“We have nothing to hide, I will declare these earnings and pay 40 per cent income on them.”
The revelations come after Musk took aim at Farage for his failure to support ex-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson.
Responding to calls from the X boss to step down, Farage said: “Well, this is a surprise! Elon is a remarkable individual but on this I am afraid I disagree.
“My view remains that Tommy Robinson is not right for Reform and I never sell out my principles.”
He later added: “I have no desire to go to war with Elon Musk and I’m not going to, and I haven’t done.”
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Starmer considers Siddiq replacement as corruption scandal deepens
Siddiq is under investigation in Britain over her use of properties linked to her aunt Sheikh HasinaPA
Senior allies of Sir Keir Starmer have been mulling over who could replace Tulip Siddiq if she is forced to quit over her links to her aunt’s ousted Bangladeshi regime.
The development, as reported in The Times, comes after Siddiq referred herself to the independent adviser on ministers’ interests amid concerns about her use of several properties linked to her aunt’s party.
Financial-crime officials at Bangladesh’s central bank have demanded bank-account details for Siddiq and seven of her family members
Alistair Strathern, Imogen Walker, Callum Anderson, Kanishka Narayan, Rachel Blake and Josh Simons have reportedly been earmarked for the role.
However, a No10 spokesman said it was “completely untrue” to suggest the party had drawn up a shortlist.
‘Back under union control!’ Badenoch blasts ‘Corbynite’ Starmer over plans to undo Tory reforms
Kemi Badenoch has warned the UK is “back under union control” after Labour voted to undo academy freedoms introduced by the Tories in the 2010s.
Speaking to The Telegraph, the Leader of the Opposition said: “This is not good for schools, and what it is showing is that Labour are just doing what the unions want them to do.
“The country is back under union control, and that’s what we are fighting against.”
Badenoch also described the Government as “Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party fronted by Keir Starmer”.
Reeves ‘flees to Beijing’ while UK faces 1970s-style debt ‘nightmare’
Rachel Reeves
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has jetted off to Beijing despite being warned the UK faces a 1970s-style debt “nightmare”.
Reeves, who was urged to cancel her trip by MPs yesterday, left the UK as the pound sunk to a 15-month low against the dollar and borrowing rates rose to a 27-year high.
Martin Weale, a respected former member of the Bank of England’s rate-setting monetary policy committee, told Bloomberg News: “We haven’t really seen the toxic combination of a sharp fall in sterling and long-term interest rates going up since 1976. That led to the IMF bailout.”
He added: “So far we are not in that position but it must be one of the Chancellor’s nightmares.”
Nigel Green, chief executive of financial advisory firm deVere, also said: “The Chancellor’s inability to reassure markets is fanning fears of an economic implosion, with austerity looming as the only option to restore credibility – a brutal throwback to 1976.”
