Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe received over £10,000 from Elon Musk’s platform X in a single month.

Analysis of the register of MPs’ financial interests by PoliticsHome reveals that since being elected as a Reform MP in July 2024, Lowe has raked in over £70,000 from posting on the platform.

Last September, PoliticsHome found that Lowe had earned almost £40,000 from posting on X since he was elected, far surpassing Reform UK MPs Farage, Richard Tice and Lee Anderson. 

By the end of May 2026, Lowe had earned £72,441, including registering more than £10,000 in payments in April alone. 

Lowe, who shares around 10 posts per day on the platform, and has over 770,000 followers, has made the most money out of any other MP from his social media activities.

Since purchasing Twitter in November 2024, Musk has changed to a different monetisation model, paying users based on engagement from Premium subscribers rather than advertising revenue.

Lowe uses provocative language in his posts, and has been amplified by Musk himself, who has backed Restore Britain several times in the last week alone. 

Farage has earned £19,866 in total from X since the 2024 general election, while Tice and Anderson have earned more than £6,953 and £6415 respectively. 

Luke Charters, MP for York Outer, has become the first Labour MP to register income from X, having registered £556 from the platform in May.

Olivia Barber is a reporter at Left Foot Forward

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Reform leader Nigel Farage has pocketed more than £2 million outside of being an MP since he was elected in July 2024, according to analysis of the MPs’ register of financial interests.

This comes after it was revealed that Farage took a £5 million gift from cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne in 2024, shortly before deciding to stand as an MP.

Analysis by investigative outlet DeSmog found that Farage has now received £700,000 from right-wing broadcaster GB News, since July 2024. 

He has also made over £415,000 from promoting gold for Direct Bullion, which is owned by Paul Withers. Withers also co-founded Stack BTC, the bitcoin company which Farage has bought a £215,000 stake in, and has been promoting. 

The Reform leader has also made £220,000 from making short personalised video messages on Cameo. 

In addition, Farage has accepted £272,000 in gifts, including several private jet flights to the United States, and F1 tickets provided by the Abu Dhabi government.

In the latest register of interests, he also listed a new gift from the South African businessman Avi Lasarow, who gave the Reform leader three tickets to a boxing match on 4 April worth £1,749.

Farage also accepted a £50,000 ticket to the World Economic Forum at Davos paid for by Iranian-Kazakh billionaire Sasan Ghandehari.

Back in April, DeSmog reported that over 70% of Farage’s backers are based abroad. This includes Harborne, the Thailand-based crypto investor who has donated £22 million to Reform to date.

This is all on top of Farage’s yearly MP salary of £94,000. From next year, the Reform politician will also be able to claim a pension from the European Union, of about £73,000 a year.

Reacting to Farage’s huge outside income, a Green Party spokesperson told DeSmog: “Nigel Farage is a multi-millionaire who is out for himself and working for the interests of his super-rich friends.” 

“His whole career has been focused on personal gain and public division. He is failing his constituents and has no positive plan to help ordinary people with the cost of living crisis, housing or improving public services.”

Kamila Kingstone, a senior campaign lead at Spotlight on Corruption, said: “That Farage has amassed £2 million from personal earnings and gifts while a sitting member of Parliament should concern anyone who thinks an MP’s job is to represent their constituents.”

“It’s a systemic issue and highlights a wider failure of the rules that are supposed to ensure integrity in public life. It risks blurring the lines between public service and private interests, creating the perception – and in some cases a reality – that some politicians are in it for themselves.”

Olivia Barber is a reporter at Left Foot Forward

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