The Reform leader’s dalliance with the US billionaire looks in trouble after an abrupt about-turn from the X boss

It was the morning after the rather disappointing day before. “At the moment, I am just letting things lie,” Nigel Farage told the Guardian with a dry chuckle on being asked whether he might attempt a rapprochement with the world’s richest man.

It has been quite the three weeks since Nigel Farage and Reform’s treasurer Nick Candy enjoyed a well-publicised meeting with Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s Mar a Lago home in Florida’s Palm Beach.