Elon Musk has launched another salvo at the UK: he has asked for fresh elections, citing a poll that showed that Keir Starmer's Labour party had lost support amongst the people. Earlier, Musk had said that the UK was headed for a "civil war".
The UK is not the sole ally that Musk has targeted. Musk has trained his guns on Justin Trudeau of Canada calling him an "insufferable fool" and predicting the collapse of his government. In Germany, he has thrown his weight behind a far-right party.
Just imagine. Had Russia made such remarks, how would Western governments respond? Musk is no longer just a private citizen. He is seen as Donald Trump's right-hand man and has been named to the new administration. His remarks cannot be lightly dismissed. They amount to blatant interference in British politics. Will the UK have the spine to respond?
It's hard to see how the Starmer dispensation can get its equation with Trump right even if were to ignore Musk's remarks. The Labour party had infuriated Trump by sending several of its senior figures to Kamala Harris' presidential convention in Chicago last July. The UK Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, will find it difficult to live down his characterisations of Trump in the past- "neo-Nazi", "tyrant", "xenophobic". Lammy has dismissed those remarks as those of a back-bencher but then Mr Trump may be in no mood to forget and forgive.
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