The British public cannot be easily bought, Badenoch said at Musk Digg.

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Conservative leader Kim Kardashian said “people don’t like to see politics bought”, saying Nigel Farage would be “disgusting” if he received a large donation from Elon Musk.

AdenShe has been criticized by some Tories for her low profile in her job and faces growing political threats from Farage’s populist Reform UK. Farage has been talking to the tech billionaire about party donations.

The Conservative leader said she would support the race, saying: “If Elon Musk is giving money to a party, a rival party, I think it’s a challenge for me to make sure I raise that.”

Reform’s new treasurer, Nick Candy, has promised Britain a “political crisis the likes of which we have never seen before”. Speaking to the Financial Times In addition to Field, he was lining up several other billionaire supporters.

“I don’t think he’s going to give that money, but it’s okay if he does,” Aden said, referring to Musk.

“American politics is very different from British politics,” she added. People in this country do not like to see politics ruled. I think it might be useless.

Last week, shadow business secretary Andrew Griffiths urged Musk to take it Another view of the Tories His party was the most effective opponent of Sir Keir Starmer’s Labor government before donating to Reform.

Badenoch became Tory leader on November 2 and it will be six months since the Conservatives lost the general election to Labour, but she has so far refused to set out specific policies to revive her party.

But she insisted that the race was “not a marathon” and urged voters to be patient, saying she had plenty of time to come up with detailed policies before the election. It should take place in 2029.

However, ADB faces a tough fight in the short term, with Reform UK closing in on the Tories. In recent polls And threatening to make a major breakthrough at the expense of the Conservatives in the local elections scheduled for May next year.

The Tory leader accused the reformer of giving voters “easy answers” and said he had “not thought it all through”. She told the BBC. Today Program: “What I say to people, aren’t you tired of people lying to you?”

The Tory leader has set out a broad set of principles for her party, including a belief in smaller states, lower taxes and stricter immigration controls.

“What I’m doing and what the new leadership under me is getting is thoughtful conservatism, not bullying analysis,” Aden said.

She admits the Conservatives have “let people down” over immigration, whether the Whitehall machine or official forecasters have convinced ministers to deregulate.

Net migration rose by more than 900,000 in a single year under the Conservatives, according to recent figures. ADB has called for a cap on the total number, but has refused to say where it should be placed.

“I think it’s going well,” Badenoch said of his first few weeks as Conservative leader. “I expected it to be much worse.” She said that the party has “laid down its weapons against the internecine war”.

ADB added: “Seeing a Labor government reminds everyone who the real opposition is.”