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Musk is ‘ready to bankroll’ UK populist Farage. Is Australia next?

The Reform UK leader is potentially in line for a massive injection of support from the X owner. Could the billionaire be looking at Down Under, too?

London | British populist leader Nigel Farage has been memorably photographed drinking a pint of goats’ testicles for a reality TV show in Australia, and copping a banana milkshake all over his pinstripe suit while campaigning in Essex.

But a potentially more significant addition to his political photo album emerged on social media this week, taken at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Standing in front of an eye-catchingly tacky portrait of the resort’s owner is an awkward-looking trio: Farage, his Reform UK party’s money-bags treasurer, Nick Candy, and Elon Musk.

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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.

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