ELON Musk has claimed that Reform UK will win the General Election.
It comes after former Tory minister and MP Andrea Jenkyns defected to join Nigel Farage’s party on Thursday.
In a post on Twitter/X, the social media site owned by Musk, he responded to a tweet announcing the news.
The tweet reposted by Musk, who backed Donald Trump at the US election and has been selected to head up the Department of Government Efficiency, said: “Former Tory minister Andrea Jenkins has joined Reform UK.
“Reform will win the next election.”
Musk responded with the caption: “Yes.”
Reform won five MPs at the July General Election with polls suggesting they will pick up MSPs at the next Holyrood election.
The party have also been performing strongly in council by-elections across Scotland, finishing in third place behind Labour and the SNP in Glasgow contests last week.
It comes in the same week that Elon Musk shared a petition, which has gathered more than 2.8 million signatures, calling for a General Election.
The petition has been met with criticism with the Scottish Greens saying it was being promoted by “far-right conspiracy theorists, racists and people like Elon Musk”.
Musk’s time as the owner of Twitter/X has been mired in controversy amid accusations he has allowed far-right conspiracy theories to spread across the platform.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has already dismissed the petition during an interview on This Morning.
He said: “I remind myself that very many people didn’t vote Labour at the last election. I’m not surprised that many of them want a re-run, that isn’t how our system works.
“There will be plenty of people who didn’t want us in in the first place. What our focus is on is the decisions that I have to make every day.”
We told earlier this week how Sky News host Kay Burley told Elon Musk to “butt out” of UK politics after sharing the petition on the election.
