Is Elon Musk's loathing of Starmer a threat to the UK-US relationship?

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74% : Read More Elon Musk is more popular with the British public than Keir Starmer, new poll reveals'Trump knows he has to have a good relationship with the Brits, and Trump likes the Brits,' he said. '
67% : Britain went from dreary to Great again.'President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the House GOP conference, Nov. 13, 2024, in WashingtonMusk, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, is already embroiled in an ongoing scrap over social media standardsTrump has even stronger British links as his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born and raised in poverty in the Outer Hebrides before finding a new life - and Trump's father, Fred - in the US.
62% : 'But you must remember that Trump has always respected the British people and their institutions - especially the Royal Family.
47% : Read More Is Elon Musk about to give Nigel Farage $100m 'f*** you Starmer payment' to try make him next UK PM?'More than anyone else right now, Trump appears to be listening to Elon,' a senior Team Trump insider told the Mail. '
45% : But others counter that Trump cannot afford to fall out with the man who controls the most powerful information platform in US politics - and has been one of his biggest financial backers.
42% : A year earlier, Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, opined that 'Trump is such an odious, sad, little man - imagine being proud to have that as your President'.
40% : 'More than anyone else right now, Trump appears to be listening to Elon,' a senior Team Trump insider told the MailMusk's disdain for Labour and Sir Keir Starmer is all the more significant given that he now has the ear of President-elect TrumpFor Trump, one need look no further than the stream of pious abuse that's come his way from senior Labour politicians.
33% : And then there was Ed Miliband, Energy Security, saying in 2016: 'The idea that we have shared values with a racist, misogynistic self-confessed groper beggars belief.'Read MoreEXCLUSIVE Ex-French President says EU must be ready fight tariff war with Trump and sanction Elon Musk's firmsThe Labour Party's tone-deaf decision to help organise nearly 100 members to volunteer for the Kamala Harris campaign hardly helped matters and prompted a complaint to the US Federal Election Commission from the Trump campaign about 'blatant foreign interference'.
29% : And since Trump reportedly has little love for a Labour leadership that has routinely insulted him, could Musk's first 'efficiency' be to persuade his friend to stop wasting time on the 'Special Relationship'?
28% : 'Trump is transactional, he's a deal-maker - with whoever's in Downing Street,' said the insider. '

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