Labour canvasser asked why I wasn't voting that way at the last GE. I said, "I'm a socialist - honestly, would you*?" and he seemed within a heartbeat of agreeing. The local crowd seemed pretty depressed about chasing the Overton window back then [although obviously they will make sympathetic noises towards anyone they're talking to, that's part of the job].
[* This isn't risking a Reform storm - FPTP and I'm in a solidly Labour ward, but they still bothered to knock on doors, which was eye-opening in itself]
He rode to power on the back of not being from the party behind the least popular government in fucking ages (after 14 years of disaster). He made lots of promises to appeal to the essentially left-wing party that he's the leader of. In any case, he wound up with a landslide parliamentary majority off the back of around a third of the actual vote.
Since then he's put Wes Streeting in charge of the NHS and McSweeney in charge of strategy, and has chased the racist vote that's stoked up by Nige "Brexit" Farage.
So he's triangulating right to chase the votes of people who can't stand him and will never vote for him, and in the space of a month has lost 34 approval points from actual Labour voters to wind up with a net -5 approval or something like that.
What's odd is that I know people who've met him and worked with him personally, and they are all largely of the belief that he's a man of deep principle. Which just goes to show his talent, because he's hiding it incredibly well at the moment.
I was under the impression that Musk was going to "fix" Boeing's delivery of AF1. I think his suggestions included relaxing the security clearance for new hires and getting everyone working 60-hour weeks.
News of that all went very quiet after the announcement though.
Give him his full title, "meta shareholder Nick Clegg".