Nigel Farage and Elon Musk to reunite as Reform leader hosts Trump inauguration party in Washington
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage is set to host ‘the biggest inauguration party’ in Washington DC with Donald Trump, the president-elect’s family, Elon Musk, senior Republicans and the UK’s new ambassador to the US Lord Mandelson all expected to attend.
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Nigel Farage is set to fix his damaged relationship with the world’s richest man with the two expected to meet up at what is being billed as “the biggest inauguration party” in Washington DC being hosted by the Reform UK leader. Elon Musk will be part of a star studded guest list of 400 from the right of US and UK politics at the party on Friday at the top of the prestigious Hay Adams Hotel in DC.
It is also set to be attended by Donald Trump, many of his family including his sons Donald jr and Barron, leading Republicans as well as the UK’s new ambassador to the US Lord Mandelson, former prime minister Liz Truss and Tory shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel.
Mr Farage will be hosting the event which has been paid for his old Brexiteer allies Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore as well as US businessman Gerry Gunster. One of the attractions of Mr Musk is the event’s sponsor Automated Analytics which is creating the world’s first artificial intelligence cloud data centre powered by renewable energy windmills of the coast of the Humber.
The scheme has been promoted politically by new Doncaster Labour MP Sally Jameson, who may also be at the event. But the event will be the first meeting between Mr Farage and Mr Musk since the X social media owner called for him to be replaced as Reform UK leader last weekend. Since then it is understood there have been attempts via Mr Trump’s team to repair relations ahead of the inauguration via back channels.
