American Billionaire Elon Musk has accused Reform UK of being "nazis" in an escalation of the ongoing feud between Nigel Farage and rival party, Restore Britain. It comes hours after Laila Cunningham, Reforms candidate for Mayor of London accused the party established by Rupert Lowe MP of being a "neo-nazi".

In a bizarre post on his social media platform X, Mr Musk, 54, responded to a post by the official Restore Britain account mentioning the Reform insult with the businessman posting: "THEY are the ones who want race extinction, which means THEY are the Nazis!".

Mr Lowe, 68, threatened legal action after Ms Cunningham, 48, said on GB News that his party was saying "if you're not white and Christian in this country, you're not British." She further alleged they were after a "kind of like neo-Nazi aryan race". Mr Lowe demanded she retract and apologise after a party spokesman said such allegations put their members "in severe danger".

Now Mr Musk has rowed into the ongoing feud to accuse Reform UK - which has been leading in the opinion polls for months - of being "nazis". Reform declined to comment. The richest man in the world has backed Mr Lowe in the past, once calling for him to replace Mr Farage as leader of Reform, shortly before the Great Yarmouth MP was ejected from the party over a separate matter.

Speaking at the time of the accusation by Ms Cunningham Mr Lowe wrote: "Reform is just more of the same. Old, tired, party political bulls*** that has failed us all for so many years. Flinging around these insults when they can't tackle the arguments. We've had it for decades. It is so very boring."

Mr Musk himself has previously demanded that labelling "non-violent people as "fascists" or "Nazi" should be treated as incidental to murder" in a post last November. The South African born billionaire was a public supporter of US President Donald Trump, until he fell out with him last year.

The ongoing spat comes just days after the party was formed, which the former Reform MP announced in a video broadcast from his farm. At the time he said: "I have chosen to speak to you today from the farm, because places like this are what proper Britain is about. Hard work, responsibility, effort, duty, stewardship. This is the England I know, and this is the England I love."

Party insiders say the organisation now has more than seventy-thousand members, which they claim is "more than the Liberal Democrats". The Daily Express has not been able to independently verify these claims. Restore Britain has seen the defection of 9 councillors, 7 in Kent and 2 in Northamptonshire in the past two days.

Speaking at a media conference yesterday Mr Farage dismissed concerns around the new party posing a risk to Reform saying: "Does he [Lowe] have a profile on X? Yes he does. Is Elon [Musk] going to support him? Probably. But you see, when he stood up and said 'we've got to consider the mass deportation of entire communities, including those born in the United Kingdom', that just moves way beyond the point of reasonableness, decency, morality."

Restore Britain is seeking to position itself to the right of Reform UK. Mr Farage has previously slammed minor parties, saying yesterday: "There are, last time we counted, 11 parties that claim to be on the right or centre right of British politics, from the Heritage Party to goodness knows who else. There is only one proper brand of centre-right politics in this country, it's call Reform. People think 'oh, Farage has done it, we'll just set a party up, it'll be marvellous, we'll sweep the next election', it just isn't as easy as that!"