Nigel Farage has said he is "still friends" with Elon Musk after the world's richest man said the Reform MP "doesn't have what it takes" to lead his party.

Reform MPs including Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson have been accused of profiting from “spreading hateful rhetoric” after it emerged they’ve made thousands of pounds from posting on Elon Musk’s X. Mr Farage,

Nigel Farage has said he and Elon Musk are still friends but warned he "can't be bullied" after the Tesla boss called for a new Reform UK leader.

Business tycoon Elon Musk asserted in a post on X that Reform UK Party leader Nigel Farage does not "have what it takes" and should be replaced. "The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn’t have what it takes,

Mr Musk’s allyship with Mr Farage would seem like a natural fit, given that the Reform leader’s relationship with Mr Trump goes back much further. The pair first met in 2016, shortly after the president-elect’s first election victory, and they are thought to have remained allies since.

The suddenness with which Musk has cast aspersions on his seeming soulmate raises the question of how long Trump will want to be in cahoots with

Nigel Farage has insisted he is still friends with Elon Musk and has spoken to him since he claimed the Reform MP “doesn’t have what it takes” to lead his party. In an interview with Sky News, Mr Farage responded to the fall-out,