The property tycoon Nick Candy, interviewed in yesterday’s Sunday Times, appears to be hoping to position himself as a UK equivalent of Elon Musk – a billionaire political kingmaker for Nigel Farage just as Musk was for Donald Trump. Newly anointed as the treasurer of Reform UK, he has pledged a ‘seven-figure’ sum to the party and hopes to raise between £25 million and £40 million before the next general election. Candy indicates that he’s angling for an invitation stateside in the hopes of picking up some tips from Musk as to how he did what Candy calls ‘an incredible job for president-elect Trump [which] sort of changed the political spectrum in America’.
Tips might not be all he’s hoping to pick up. Valuable though Elon’s insight into the ground-game in Pennsylvania might be to the struggle in Bromley and Biggin Hill, the real boost to Reform UK’s fortunes is more likely to come from Elon’s wallet than from his brain.
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