MOSCOW — Tommy Robinson, the most recognizable figure on Britain’s far right, spent Tuesday evening in the bar of Moscow’s Hotel Metropol filming himself with Errol Musk, father of the world’s richest man, and telling his 1.9 million followers on X that the two of them were going to cause some trouble.
The video, shot at the Shalyapin Bar of the five-star hotel a few hundred meters from the Kremlin, shows Robinson announcing he is enjoying my day with the 80-year-old Musk, who greets Robinson’s followers and answers the trouble line with a correction of his own: no trouble, doing things right, The Telegraph reported via Yahoo News. Musk had come to Moscow from the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Kremlin’s flagship investment showcase, where he was among the more prominent Western guests.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was unbothered by questions about what a British activist with a string of convictions was doing in the Russian capital. I’ve come to see how this country got itself so well on to the straight and narrow and see the beauty of a civilised society here, he told the Guardian, adding that Russia is not the enemy of Britain and mocking those who say otherwise. It is his second known visit, after a 2020 trip.
The meeting compresses an entire political realignment into one bar tab. Robinson’s rehabilitation from jailed agitator to international far-right celebrity has run substantially through the Musk family: Elon Musk amplified the Free Tommy Robinson campaign during Robinson’s imprisonment for contempt of court, reposts his material to hundreds of millions of users, and has made Robinson’s cause a recurring grievance against the British government. The father drinking with Robinson in Moscow is the family franchise extending the courtesy in person.
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