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ARTICLE VIEW:
Elon Musk says UK needs ‘revolutionary’ change of government in
speech to anti-migrant rally
By Catherine Nicholls, CNN
Updated:
10:07 AM EDT, Sun September 14, 2025
Source: CNN
Billionaire on Saturday said that the United Kingdom needs
“revolutionary government change,” speaking virtually at a in
London.
The comments from the world’s richest man, a former adviser to Donald
Trump, came days before the US president’s to Britain, which is four
years away from the next scheduled general election.
“There needs to be massive government reform in Britain and the
people need to be in charge, not some bureaucracy that doesn’t
care,” Musk said in a Q&A with far-right political activist , the
organizer of the rally, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
“We must have revolutionary government change… This really requires
everyone to sort of marshal the people, to take charge, reform the
government, and make sure that you actually have a government that is
for the people, by the people,” the billionaire said.
Musk has been wading into UK politics for some time now. Last summer,
during a wave of violent anti-immigration riots in Britain, the Tesla
chief executive and owner of X said that “”
In January, he said that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer when
dredging up a years-long scandal over historic child sex abuse in parts
of England.
For a while, Musk was allied with the leader of the populist party .
But the friendship fell apart earlier this year when Farage refused to
echo Musk’s support for Robinson, the founder of the now-defunct
anti-immigration English Defence League (EDL), who was previously
jailed for being in contempt of court by repeating false accusations
about a Syrian refugee.
In other inflammatory remarks on Saturday, Musk told the crowd via
livestream on a big screen that “violence is coming to you. You
either fight back or you die.”
He also referenced the killing of the American political activist in
the United States on Wednesday, saying that “people on the left”
were “openly” celebrating his death.
“The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder,” Musk
said.
Britain’s Business Secretary Peter Kyle called Musk’s speech
“slightly incomprehensible” and “totally inappropriate” in an
interview with the BBC on Sunday.
But Kyle added that Robinson’s protest - which drew between 110,000
and 150,000 demonstrators according to police - showed that those in
power need to address “big concerns” that the public may have,
including immigration.
“I think these are moments that are klaxon calls to us in public life
to redouble our efforts to address the big concerns that people right
across our country have,” Kyle said. He also said that the
demonstration proved that free speech is “alive and well in this
country.”
London’s Metropolitan Police Service said 24 people were arrested,
while 26 police officers were injured, including four seriously, at the
far-right protest Saturday. Injuries included broken teeth, a possible
broken nose, a concussion, a prolapsed disc and a head injury, the
force said in a statement Saturday night.
“We will not stand for assaults on police officers doing their job or
for people feeling intimidated on our streets because of their
background or the color of their skin,” Starmer said in a post on X
Sunday.
“Britain is a nation proudly built on tolerance, diversity and
respect. Our flag represents our diverse country and we will never
surrender it to those that use it as a symbol of violence, fear and
division,” he continued.
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