A £78 million political donation from Elon Musk “will break our democracy”. This was the stark warning from investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan when it was reported that the world’s richest man was preparing a payment of US$100 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform party.
There is a lot that people don’t agree on when it comes to money in politics. But one thing on which politicians tend to be aligned is that foreign interference is bad. It runs against the principle of self-determination.
Politics, we tend to believe, is the business of nations and their citizens. This was, of course, why Reform (née the Brexit party, née UKIP) campaigned so passionately to “take back control” from Brussels in the Brexit referendum.
