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Reform UK’s new Treasurer Nick Sweet reveals he spoke to Elon Musk this morning

By Editorial Board Published December 10, 2024 5 Min Read
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Reform UK’s new Treasurer Nick Sweet reveals he spoke to Elon Musk this morning

Reform UK’s new Treasurer has revealed he spoke to Elon Musk this morning following strategies the tech tycoon might make a multi-million-pound donation to Nigel Farage’s occasion.

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“I was messaging him this morning,” Mr Sweet stated.

“I cannot further discuss that. We were speaking directly.”

Property tycoon Mr Sweet stated he renounced his Conservative membership due to “too many broken promises” and a “breach of trust with the wealth creators in our country”.

He stated he would take up the fundraising position for Reform UK within the new yr.

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Mr Musk has expressed help for Reform UK on his X social media platform, suggesting the occasion might win the subsequent basic election.

Nevertheless, occasion chief Mr Farage, who was interviewed alongside Mr Sweet, has rubbished studies the world’s richest man might donate £80m.

He known as it a “story without any basis in fact”.

He stated: “Elon Musk is very supportive of what Reform is trying to do, supportive of me personally. And we’ve got the connections with him, and Nick’s got good connections with him as well.

“He is giving us political help. We’ve, at this stage, neither solicited or been supplied donations.”

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Reform has been buoyed by a sequence of current Tory defections, together with former minister Andrea Jenkyns, and described Mr Sweet’s appointment as its “latest coup” because it prepares for the native elections in Might.

Mr Farage instructed Beth Rigby that racist and homophobic feedback made by a few of his candidates standing on the July basic election “hugely” damage the marketing campaign and it “wasn’t really in a fit state” to combat on the polls.

He insisted that is now “all changed”, and the occasion is vetting candidates for the English county council elections, “to a standard no other party for local elections ever has done”.

Nigel Farage and Nick Candy at Millbank TV studios.
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Nigel Farage and Nick Sweet at Millbank TV studios. Pic: PA

‘He is a superb younger man’

Mr Farage was then requested in regards to the case of James McMurdock, one in every of Reform’s 5 new MPs who was jailed 18 years in the past for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend, based on court docket data seen by The Occasions.

He spent 21 days in a younger offenders’ establishment after admitting to the assault, however the funding banker didn’t disclose his report forward of the election and after it got here to gentle, downplayed it as a “teenage indiscretion”.

Requested how he would take care of circumstances like this in the event that they emerge sooner or later, Mr Farage stated he believes in “Christian forgiveness”.

The Reform chief argued that if half of the individuals at present in a younger offenders’ establishment turned out in addition to Mr McMurdock as we speak “we’d be a better country”.

It was put to Mr Farage that there’s a discrepancy between what court docket paperwork say – that Mr McMurdock kicked his girlfriend 4 occasions – and what he stated in a press release, which is that he pushed her.

James McMurdock arrives at the House of Commons.
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James McMurdock. Pic: PA

Mr Farage stated: “I tell you what. We’re busy right?

“We’re constructing a brand new political occasion. You need to discuss a spent conviction from 20 years in the past. What’s occurred has occurred.

“Whether there is a discrepancy or not, I don’t know. What I know is he’s a fine young man, he’s turned out really very, very well. He’s a serving member of Parliament.”

Mr McMurdock has stated he nonetheless feels “deeply ashamed and apologetic” over the assault and that he “faced the consequences then and paid for my action in full”.

He stated the “shame” of that night time “led me to turn my life around” and he now has a spouse and 4 kids, and is anticipating a fifth in February.

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