Tommy Robinson’s Musk-funded Russia trip spurs call to defend UK democracy

The Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, called Tommy Robinson ‘a useful idiot for a hostile state’. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

The UK must do more to defend its democracy after it emerged that Elon Musk’s family foundation had taken the far-right activist Tommy Robinson to Russia, Ed Davey has said.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was brought to Russia by the Musks, the billionaire tech mogul’s father told the Guardian.