As president-elect Donald Trump prepares to move into the White House, the relationship between his best buddy Elon Musk and the leadership of China's Communist Party is in sharp focus.

The New York Times reported that the world’s wealthiest individual effectively became the president-elect's tenant after Election Day.

Senior politicians on the UK right have privately contacted Donald Trump’s allies, urging the US President-elect’s team not to endorse British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, after billionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk called for him to be released from prison.

Elon Musk has launched his most high-profile appeal to try and influence British politics, but the approach is unlikely to prove effective.

As part of a recent spike of interest in British affairs and an hours-long posting spree on his social media platform, X, on Friday morning—which included attacks on the country’s current Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and controversial demands for the release of a imprisoned right-wing rabble rouser—Elon Musk suggested that the United Kingdom’s parliament should be dissolved entirely.

Elon Musk has continued his criticism of the UK government, calling on the King to step in and dissolve parliament after Labour rejected a call for a national inquiry into child grooming. The tech billionaire triggered an explosive row on Thursday over Sir Keir Starmer ’s handling of historic child abuse in Oldham after he suggested the prime minister had failed to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions.

A convicted fraudster with a violent criminal record, Tommy Robinson has become the latest cause championed by the richest person on the planet, Elon Musk.

Elon Musk has launched another attack on Sir Keir Starmer, accusing the prime minister of failing to prosecute child grooming gangs during his time as director of public prosecutions (DPP). In a series of posts to his social media platform X,

Elon Musk is facing heavy criticism after he demanded the release of far-right leader Tommy Robinson, who is serving 18-months in prison in the UK.