Could Reform Get Millions From Musk?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at Nigel Farage’s meeting with Elon Musk.
Adam and Chris discuss the significance of the Reform leader’s trip to Mar A Lago to meet Elon Musk and whether he’ll be allowed to donate to them under election spending rules. They also talk about the WASPI women who have been campaigning for compensation over pension changes as they say they were not were not properly informed of the rise in state pension age.
And, Adam speaks to Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at the University of Oxford Ben Ansell to reflect on the year of elections.
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| 0:04.7 | Chris, would you like an update on our new newscast Christmas gimmick, which is Father Chris Mason? |
| 0:09.7 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm, yes. |
| 0:11.9 | I can offer an update of my own, actually, at the second, but I'll hear yours first. |
| 0:15.4 | Well, so Lily has sent us a picture of you in the festive Santa Hat artwork in a gay club in Sydney. |
| 0:24.9 | Terrific. |
| 0:25.7 | With actually a big screen saying Slay, which is all year roundword now. |
| 0:33.1 | Spell tell. |
| 0:34.4 | S-L-A-Y. |
| 0:35.3 | Oh, right. Okay. |
| 0:36.1 | Do you know about that's for next year. |
| 0:38.5 | And then we've had a message from Thia, who's on a raft of Coron Island. |
| 0:44.0 | I hope I've pronounced that correctly. |
| 0:45.0 | Where's that? |
| 0:45.8 | The Philippines. |
| 0:48.3 | And it looks very, very scenic. |
| 0:51.0 | And, yeah, I think it's sunset in the Philippines. |
| 0:53.2 | And there's you on |
| 0:54.5 | Thea's phone on a raft. Well, thank you, the Philippines and thank you, Australia. And thank you |
| 1:00.4 | Theo. And there's a little update that I can offer, which was within moments of this particular |
| 1:07.1 | wheeze being rolled out. |
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