Top Tory tries to woo Elon Musk

The talk in Westminster is how much Elon Musk is going to give to Reform. But might the Tories might be a better bet for the Tesla billionaire? On this morning’s media round, Andrew Griffith – the Shadow Business Secretary – made his pitch to the X owner, praising him as an ‘accomplished’ businessman and insisting that his party is best placed to take the fight to Labour. Griffith told Kay Burley on Sky that the Tories were the ‘only’ force able to take on ‘the woke mind virus’, saying:

What I would say to Elon is: he’s been campaigning a lot about freedom of speech. He talks a lot about the “woke mind virus”, this whole thing that he thinks is infecting the world. And I’d say, look, look at the Conservative party. Look at what Kemi Badenoch did in government on things like the gender agenda, protecting children from the Tavistock Clinic, when it was Nigel Farage who got debunked by NatWest.