Mr Farage told BBC’s Newsnight ‘I don’t think there’s any long term rift’ with the billionaire.

Nigel Farage has said he is on “very good terms” with Elon Musk after the Tesla boss said that Reform UK needed a new leader.

Mr Farage told BBC’s Newsnight “I don’t think there’s any long term rift” with the billionaire, after he had said that Mr Farage “doesn’t have what it takes” to lead the party.

Earlier on Friday, the Reform leader told Sky News that he “can’t be pushed or bullied”.

A split between the pair seemed to emerge last weekend, and followed Mr Farage’s continuing rejection of calls to support jailed, far-right activist Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, whom Mr Musk has previously tweeted in favour of.

Speaking to the BBC on Friday evening after Reform’s South East conference, Mr Farage........

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