Lutnick currently serves as chair of Trump’s White House transition team. His most notable moment in recent memory was his declaration on CNN that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the vaccine conspiracist and Covid lockdown critic, would not be Trump’s pick for head of Health and Human Services. Trump nominated Kennedy to that very post last week.

Musk wants to publicly tangle with the regulator that has the most muscle to flex over his space business. Will his strategy work?

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate has offered Elon Musk $1 million a month to advertise X, formerly known as Twitter. Musk bought the social media platform in 2022 but has recently seen major advertisers jump ship after he wrote a post accusing Jewish people of pushing hatred and also faced criticism for allowing hate speech to flourish on X.

Sir Keir Starmer is less popular than Elon Musk with the British public, a poll has found. The Prime Minister’s net approval rating now stands at minus 22 points, a significant fall from his score of four points at the start of the general election campaign in May.