Reform UK’s Nigel Farage and Nick Candy held “historic” talks with Elon Musk yesterday, the party has revealed.
The trio sat down at Donald Trump’s Florida resort Mar-A-Lago to discuss top topics including the “Trump ground game” – and hinted about “ongoing discussions on other areas” in the wake of rumours that Musk might donate to the party.
Candy, Reform’s treasurer, and Farage released a statement on Tuesday about the talks, which read: “We had a great meeting with Elon Musk for an hour yesterday.
“We learned a great deal about the Trump ground game and will have ongoing discussions on other areas.
‘We only have one more chance left to save the West,’ the pair said at Mar-A-Lago
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“We only have one more chance left to save the West and we can do great things together.
“Our thanks also to President Trump for allowing us to use Mar-A-Lago for this historic meeting. The special relationship is alive and well.”
The Trump-allied trio’s Mar-A-Lago meeting came less than a week after Candy pledged to raise more than £40million in donations after being appointed as Reform UK’s new treasurer.
The ex-Conservative Party mega-donor announced his defection to Nigel Farage’s party last Tuesday – and he told GB News he would “significantly better” the £25-40million previously raised by other political parties throughout General Election campaigning.
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The trio sat down for talks at Donald Trump’s Florida estate
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And following a “personal conversation” with Musk, Candy said the tech tycoon would be willing to help the party.
“I don’t want to go too much into the personal side of it…But he, I think, would like to help Nigel and Reform and myself,” he said.
That followed rumours that the X owner would pledge as much as £80million to Reform UK – but Musk himself threw these out, just days after party leader Nigel Farage called the reports “pure speculation”.
At a press conference back in November, Farage said: “Are Trump and Elon going to support me in the run-up to 2029? Well, that’s what friends are for, isn’t it?”
‘The special relationship is alive and well,’ Farage and Candy said
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The party leader had also jetted off stateside ahead of November 5’s US Presidential Election to support Trump – and even appeared at his rally in Pennsylvania donning a Maga hat in Reform blue.
He also appeared at the incoming President’s Election Night party in Florida, with Musk joining Trump behind the scenes to mark the historic moment.
And Monday’s Musk meeting will doubtless add fuel to the fire on Farage’s own hints at taking on a new “interlocutor” role between Britain and the US.
“It seems to me that with a Labour Party and a Republican Party who disagree on so many things – who are such fundamentally different people – that I might be useful as an interlocutor, unofficially, behind the scenes, to try and help mend some of those fences,” he told supporters on November 9.
