Dominic Cummings may persuade Elon Musk to again the Tories, Senior Conservative says – amid claims former No 10 adviser helps orchestrate Tesla billionaire’s assaults on Keir Starmer
Dominic Cummings could persuade Elon Musk to back the Tories, Nadine Dorries claimed after it was revealed the controversial pair were communicating.
Boris Johnson’s former No 10 adviser is reportedly helping to orchestrate the tech billionaire’s attacks on British politicians via messages on WhatsApp, The Mail on Sundays said.
Mr Cummings is planning a new ‘StartUp Party’ which he hopes will smash the traditional Westminster system. But former Tory cabinet minister Ms Dorries said the suggestion he would start a new political party that would take off is ‘for the birds’.
Instead, she said she thought Mr Cummings could influence the Mr Musk, who owns social media site X, to support Kemi Badenoch and the Tories.
Ms Dorries told the Mail last night: ‘If Musk thinks that Cummings is going to start a new political party in the UK and it’s going to take off, that’s for the birds. Of course it’s going to end in tears.’
She added: ‘I think what you will see is Musk will come out for Kemi Badenoch.
Given Dominic Cummings’ political allies and personal relationships, if anything were to come out of this it would be Dominic Cummings persuading Musk to support Kemi Badenoch.’
Labour’s suspicions that Mr Musk and Mr Cummings were in talks were aroused by the tech tycoon’s use of British terminology such as ‘two-tier Keir’ and the timings of his posts, the Mail reported.
Dominic Cummings is planning a new ‘StartUp Party’ which he hopes will smash the traditional Westminster system
A source told the MailOnline that Elon Musk is in talks with Dominic Cummings about politics in the UK
Nadine Dorries said the suggestion Dominic Cummings would start a new political party that would take off is ‘for the birds’.
Musk is yet to show support for Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, but Dorries believes that could be on the cards
Several of his posts were sent in the middle of the night in America, leading sources to conclude that Mr Musk ‘must have a UK-based co-conspirator writing the posts for him’. However, tweets can be scheduled to go out at any time.
An ally of Mr Musk told The Mail: ‘It is 100 per cent true that they [Musk and Cummings] are talking about smaller government and the end of the traditional party system.
‘It is not just Elon – Dom is in constant contact with major Silicon Valley figures, who are becoming increasingly anti-woke.’
Neither Mr Cummings nor Mr Musk responded to The Mail’s request for comment.
It was reported last week that Mr Musk, who has posted a slew of attacks about Keir Starmer over the grooming gangs issue, had privately discussed with allies how to remove the Prime Minister from office. The Financial Times said he was probing how he and allies could destabilise the UK Labour Government. One person briefed on the matter said: ‘His view is that western civilisation itself is threatened.’
He was reported to have sought information about whether it might be possible to build support for alternative British political movements.
On X, Mr Musk has described the Prime Minister as ‘evil’, and said he should be in prison as he was ‘complicit in the rape of Britain’ during his tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions, when police were investigating grooming gangs.
