Political situation in the UK

Farage unhappy with Musk: “Trying to split the right”

British right-wing politician Nigel Farage is irritated with billionaire Elon Musk, writes The Telegraph.

In a few weeks, the important by-election in Makerfield will be held. In the latest poll, the social democratic Labour party gets 43 percent against Farage’s EU-critical right-wing party Reform on 40. The election is receiving extra attention because Labour politician Andy Burnham hopes to be elected to the seat, which is required for him to be able to challenge Keir Starmer for the post of prime minister.

On Sunday, Elon Musk entered the election. But he did not support Farage’s party, but the smaller right-wing party Restore Britain, which only has seven percent of the support.

“Restore Britain,” Musk wrote in the post.

The post will probably make Andy Burnham overjoyed, Farage tells the newspaper.

– Elon Musk has decided that he will try to split the British right as much as he can. This means supporting a party made up of a single man with a social media account. I have no idea what he is trying to achieve.

Brexit  UK Politics
Analysis: Britain will never be a “Brexit”

Can Britain rejoin the EU? The question is bubbling up in the country as several of Keir Starmer’s challengers for the post of Prime Minister want to tear up Brexit – and thus be given the epithet “Brexit”.

But the discussion is futile, writes the market liberal and conservative author Daniel Hannan in an analysis in The Telegraph. He believes that all Labour politicians who argue for re-entry know that in reality there is no realistic possibility.

“But for emotional reasons they cannot let go of the idea”, writes Hannan.

One of the advocates is The Independent. The newspaper’s position is that EU membership would be good and that now, ten years after Brexit, it is time for Labour to write the point into its next party manifesto.

“It would have benefited all the people of Europe.”

The issue is also raised in the Chatham House think tank podcast “Independent Thinking.” Financial Times trade reporter Alan Beattie says the issue has never really died in Labour circles, but that it has recently become a hotbed of debate. Sooner or later, Labour will have to take an active stance on the issue, he says.