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

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,

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

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.

Elon Musk has suggested that Reform UK needs to replace Nigel Farage with a new leader. The Tesla tycoon said Mr Farage, who founded the party and is credited with its recent surge in the polls, “does not have what it takes”.

A Reform MP has slammed a reported government assessment into Elon Musk's posts as "pathetic" amid concerns about the danger they pose to UK security. The Home Office is said to have ramped up extra monitoring to assess the content and reach of what is being shared X,