Believe it or not billionaire tech magnate Elon Musk has held private discussions with associates about removing British PM Keir Starmer from his position before the next election, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and a close associate of US President-elect Trump, had endorsed a German anti-immigration party last month.  Some called this interference in internal politics of Germany as elections in Germany are to be held very shortly in February. He has commented on British politics repeatedly, calling for PM Keir Starmer’s resignation.

Musk has been pondering how he and his associates can destabilise the Labour government and has sought info about building support for alternative political movements in Britain to facilitate a change in government, said the FT report, citing people acquainted with the matter. “His view is that Western civilisation itself is threatened,” one of these people told the FT. Musk didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Musk had earlier accused Keir Starmer of what he stated was abject failure to prosecute gangs of men who raped young girls when he was director of public prosecutions (between 2008 and 2013). Starmer subsequently defended his work as top prosecutor of Britain.

Separately, billionaire tech magnate took his endorsement of Germany’s far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) to the next level by hosting Alice Weidel (frontwoman of AfD) in a live interview on X on Thursday. The 74-minute conversation ranged across energy policy, Adolf Hitler, German bureaucracy, Mars and the meaning of life. The world’s wealthiest man unequivocally urged Germans to back Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in upcoming elections. It’s the billionaire tech magnate’s latest, contentious foray into European politics. Earlier this week, Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Stoere expressed his apprehension over Musk involving himself in the political issues of nations outside of the US.

There’d been a considerable build-up to the Thursday discussion between Musk and Weidel as Elon Musk faced allegations of meddling in Germany’s snap election. But the interview, conducted in English language, was arguably as much an opportunity for the AfD to reach international audiences via Musk’s social media platform X. Knowing of his close association with US president elect Donald Trump, Alice Weidel expressed her support for Trump and his team. Weidel claimed her party was “conservative” and “libertarian” but had been “negatively framed” by mainstream media as extremist. Sections of the AfD have been classed as right-wing extremist officially by German authorities.

In the course of the conversation, Weidel declared that Hitler had actually been a “communist”, despite the distinguished anti-communism of the Nazi leader, who had invaded the Soviet Union. “He wasn’t a conservative,” she said. “He wasn’t a libertarian. He was this communist, socialist guy.” She even described Hitler as an “antisemitic socialist”. On other issues, she and Musk chimed – and sometimes giggled – over Germany’s notorious bureaucracy, its “crazy” desertion of nuclear power, the requirement for tax cuts, free speech and “wokeness”.