Elon Musk has publicly backed Ben Habib's Advance UK party - just months after turning away from Reform UK.
Mr Habib, whom Nigel Farage replaced as Reform's deputy leader with Richard Tice last summer, launched his own party in late June this year.
Speaking to GB News at the time, he billed it as a new "political force on the British political landscape" - but denied it would "split the Reform vote".
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Now, the world's richest man has endorsed it on his social media platform, X, as he took a new series of interventions into British politics following his fury at the reemergence of the rape gang scandal earlier this year.
Ben Habib launched Advance UK this summer
| GETTY"Advance UK will actually drive change. Farage is weak sauce who will do nothing," Mr Musk said.
Mr Habib then told GB News that he and Mr Musk had been in contact since January.
"He shares three beliefs with me. First, Western civilisation faces its end, the way it's being governed," the Advance UK leader said.
"Second, as far as the UK is concerned, Farage is not the answer. And now, third, Advance UK, is the answer. There is great love and concern about the UK in the US. Elon Musk is one of them.
"The UK's betterment is much assisted by the protective umbrella of people like him," he added.
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'There is great love and concern about the UK in the US. Elon Musk is one of them,' Mr Habib said
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In December last year, the Tesla tycoon had met Mr Farage and Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy at Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort for crunch talks.
Rumours of a multi-million-pound donation followed, but never came to fruition, before a public fallout between Mr Musk and the Reform leader erupted.
Mr Farage later said Musk was only "trying to encourage" him when he called for his sacking.
"We talked about it," he told the BBC. "He was just trying to encourage me in a few policy areas, ones I wasn't prepared to go down."
A Financial Times report in March then hinted the SpaceX chief would consider backing a rival to Reform UK led by Rupert Lowe.
And on Tuesday, he lent his support to Mr Lowe and Mr Habib's own political pushes.
"I would like to help fund legal actions against corrupt officials who aided and abetted the rape of Britain, per the official Government inquiry," the Tesla chief said in response to damning findings by the latter's independent Rape Gang Inquiry.
Mr Farage and Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy travelled to Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago base in December to meet Elon Musk
| STUART MITCHELLThe unofficial investigation said it had found child sexual exploitation in 85 local authorities across Britain.
In further interventions, Mr Musk vowed: "This madness needs to end," in response to news of Lucy Connolly's imprisonment, and shared an image of a St George's flag following "Operation Raise the Colours".
Mr Lowe told The Telegraph: "Musk has been enormously supportive of our efforts to raise awareness around the Pakistani rape gangs throughout the entire year. I have communicated with him over the course of this year."
Amid reports earlier this year that Mr Musk was considering backing Mr Lowe, Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice vowed that the party only managed to win five seats at last summer's General Election because Nigel Farage was spearheading the operation.
He told GB News: "I was thrilled and invited Nigel to get stuck in, get serious.
"I'd taken it [Reform] from nought or one per cent to in the low teens. I knew that Nigel could drive us forwards and without Nigel none of us would have been elected."