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Elon Musk has ruled out giving Nigel Farage’s Reform UK a bumper £80 million donation.

The World’s richest man issued a two-word response as he was mobbed by reporters in Washington.

The Sunday Times claimed leading businessmen and Conservative Party officials believe that Musk could hand over the cash as a “f*** you Starmer” payment in his feud with the prime minister.

Asked by ITV whether he’d be splashing the cash on Reform, he replied: “Er, no.”

Musk previously shared a post on his X social media platform declaring Reform UK will win the next General Election.

Responding to the news that ex-Tory minister Andrea Jenkyns had joined the populist party, with the caption “Reform will win the next election”, the Tesla owner said simply: “Yes.”

A shock new poll showed Reform UK has overtaken Labour for the first time, pushing Sir Keir Starmer’s party into third place.

Mr Farage’s party was on 24 per cent of public support, according to Find Out Now – up two points on last week.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told GB News he had “absolutely no idea” about any planned donations, but claimed Musk was “very supportive” of him.

He said: “What I do know is that Elon Musk is very supportive of me and what I’m trying to do.

“He thinks that if Reform do well in the UK, we can bring about the same kind of change that he intends to do with Donald Trump in America.”

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch heaped praise on Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s plans to slim down the size of the state and improve efficiency.

She argued that the West has “forgotten what the state’s purpose is in national life, no longer asking, what it should or should not do”.

“Instead using state power to continue tinkering with every aspect of life in order to achieve social justice, we sleepwalk into a planned economy far more oppressive and stagnant than thinkers of the twentieth century could have envisaged.”

She said: “The best governments do a few things well, not many things badly.”

Meanwhile it has emerged that Tesla boss Musk – estimated to be worth £264billion – blew more than a quarter of a billion dollars to ensure Trump’s election.

It included £238million for the America PAC (political action committee) which worked to turn out voters for Trump in key US states.