Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is trying to maintain a sense of optimism despite a turbulent week dominated by Elon Musk’s online “attacks” and a market rout that is testing the UK’s economic stability.

Elon Musk is being investigated in Europe amid concerns the billionaire's influence, for instance through his posts on X, constitutes an "interference" in upcoming elections. Newsweek has contacted Musk via the press office of X,

Elon Musk urged Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) in an upcoming election in a conversation with its leader on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that highlighted the US billionaire’s growing ambition to sway European politics.