Dominic Cummings is helping orchestrate Elon Musk’s vitriolic attacks on British politicians including Sir Keir Starmer, senior Government sources have claimed.
Boris Johnson’s former No 10 adviser – who is planning a new ‘StartUp Party’ which he hopes will smash the traditional Westminster system – is understood to be communicating with Mr Musk on WhatsApp.
The sources say that Mr Cummings, who has called for huge cuts to the size of the British state, is advising Mr Musk on his mission to slash trillions of dollars from US government spending on behalf of incoming President Donald Trump.
But they also believe Mr Cummings has encouraged Mr Musk’s incendiary social media posts calling for Sir Keir to be removed from office and even imprisoned amid criticism of the Prime Minister’s record on the grooming gangs scandal.
Mr Musk has also called for Nigel Farage to be toppled, although the Reform UK leader yesterday said he was back on good terms with the owner of X.
Sources close to Mr Farage said the Tesla billionaire regretted his broadside and that the pair have since reconciled. ‘Musk felt a bit contrite. It’s all fine now,’ an insider told The Mail on Sunday.
Labour’s suspicions Mr Musk and Mr Cummings were in cahoots were aroused by the tech tycoon’s use of British terminology such as ‘two-tier Keir’ and the timings of his posts.
Many were put out in the middle of the night in America – coinciding with daytime in the UK – leading the sources to conclude 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 said it was ‘100 per cent true’ that he was in dialogue with former Number 10 adviser Dominic Cummings
Cummings is planning a new ‘StartUp Party’ which he hopes will smash the traditional Westminster system – is understood to be communicating with Mr Musk via WhatsApp
There had previously been rumours that Mr Musk was planning to donate $100 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party
An ally of Mr Musk said: ‘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’.
Sources said Mr Cummings and Mr Musk were exchanging ideas via a WhatsApp group shared with an unidentified American businessman.
Last week, it was claimed that Mr Musk, who also owns SpaceX and is worth an estimated £339 billion, had spoken in private to associates about ways to destabilise the British Government, motivated by concerns that ‘Western civilisation itself was threatened’ by Labour policies.
It was reported that he had 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.
He also asked his 210 million online followers whether America should ‘liberate’ Britain from its ‘tyrannical government’. Sir Keir accused Mr Musk of ‘spreading lies and misinformation’.
It was revealed last week that the Home Office’s Homeland Security group, which is responsible for reducing national security risks, was monitoring Mr Musk’s posts.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and Party Treasurer Nick Candy recently traveled to meet with Elon Musk at Mar-A-Lago
Musk later posted on X that Mr Farage should be removed as party leader because he does not ‘have what it takes’ -although sources now claim he has since softened his stance
Now Mr Cummings is proposing to create a new political party known as the ‘StartUp Party’ which he hopes will smash the traditional Westminster system
On whether Mr Musk’s alleged plans to unseat Keir Starmer could work, a source said: ‘You can change things with money, let’s face it.’
Mr Cummings, who helped to mastermind Mr Johnson’s 2019 election win, resigned the following year after the collapse of his relationship with the PM and his infamous trip to Barnard Castle that broke the Covid curfew.
It was during his brief time in No 10 that Mr Cummings struck up his relationship with Mr Musk.
While Mr Cummings notoriously advertised for ‘weirdos and misfits’ to join Whitehall, Mr Musk is now looking to hire ‘super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries’ at his new Department for Government Efficiency.
Mr Cummings has mentioned Mr Musk seven times on X in the last month, echoing his criticism of UK policy.
The ‘Startup Party’ will, he says, challenge the status quo of Westminster in time for the next election. He said it would be staffed by physicists, entrepreneurs and ex-intelligence officers, and its policies would include taking Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights, closing tax loopholes for the richest 1 per cent, embracing technology such as artificial intelligence and shaking up Whitehall.
Cummings wrote online: ‘The Startup Party isn’t an actual name, it’s a placeholder, plenty of time for horrific arguments about names if we make this real!’
Mr Farage’s relationship with Mr Musk, which led to speculation the billionaire could make an £80 million donation to Reform, soured after Mr Farage disagreed with Mr Musk’s call for far-right activist Tommy Robinson to be freed from jail, where he is serving an 18-month sentence for contempt of court for repeating a false claim about a Syrian refugee.
Dominic Cummings is a controversial figure who was the source of public hostility after he broke COVID-19 protocols to drive hundreds of miles to his parents’ house to self-isolate
Elon Musk’s proximity to the incoming president Donald Trump – who he spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect – makes him a much sought financial backer for those seeking to disrupt the British political establishment
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has come in for harsh criticism from Mr Musk, who described him as ‘evil’, and calling him ‘complicit in the rape of Britain’
However, Mr Farage has since said he has been in touch with Mr Musk and that they remain friends, insisting: ‘I don’t think there is any long-term rift. We absolutely agree that we don’t want to be at war with each other.’
A government source argued that Mr Musk had become personally ‘fixated’ by the grooming gangs scandal and Labour’s best strategy was not to engage.
Mr Musk has also used X to attack other European governments, including backing Germany’s far-right party AfD.
Neither Mr Cummings nor Mr Musk responded to a request for comment last night