Gavin Barwell, former chief of staff to the UK Prime Minister and practically a household name during the Brexit era, heavily implied a conspiracy is afoot because, to his eyes, Elon Musk is so well informed about the UK, it is too hard to believe.
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has recently explained in relatively granular detail that a British-born grandparent partly brought him up and feels an affinity for the country, having considered himself a British rather than Boer (Dutch) heritage South African.
Yet, for Musk to have independently concluded that the United Kingdom is not presently in the best of health in its political life is so unlikely it must imply that a mysterious interlocutor is briefing him, it is claimed.
The unique logic of the claim comes from Gavin Barwell, now ennobled and in the House of Lords, the UK’s upper chamber in Parliament. A…