Sir Keir Starmer’s investment summit may have concluded, but the row over its invite list certainly has not. Now Nigel Farage has taken to Twitter to lambast the Labour lot for not inviting US tech billionaire Elon Musk to its big business bash. In a video post on the platform, the Reform leader questioned: ‘Why was the world’s richest man Elon Musk not invited to Labour’s UK investment summit?’ Going on, the Clacton MP raged:
A huge investment summit going on Labour government and businesses all over the world. But they’re all big corporates. They don’t really invite entrepreneurs and the one person they have’t invited is the world’s most amazing guy Elon Musk. Whether it’s buying this platform [Twitter], whether it’s the incredible space missions that he’s going on, whether it’s his cars, whatever it is. If there is anybody who is the world’s greatest entrepeneur, who should have been invited to this summit, it’s Elon Musk. But Labour don’t like him. You know why? Because he believe in free speech. Can’t have that now, can we?
Crikey. Farage’s tirade comes after government minister’s refused to give much away about why Musk had not made the guest list. The Beeb claimed that the snub is down to ‘his social media posts’ during the recent bout of rioting that spread across the UK, yet on Sunday, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds refused to remark on the matter on Sky News, insisting: ‘I’m not going to comment on particular invitations for particular personnel.’ A day later, Science Secretary Peter Kyle added: ‘Elon Musk has never come to any of the past investment summits that have been held under the previous government. He doesn’t tend to do these sort of events.’ How curious.
Watch the clip here:
Why was the world’s richest man @elonmusk not invited to Labour’s UK investment summit? pic.twitter.com/yJvW4RerJn
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) October 15, 2024
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