Emily Maitlis

talking now about immigration and illegal immigration when that wasn't fundamentally at the heart of this.

Look, the question you're asking is how much of a factor does the richest man in the world with all his Nazi friends getting involved in what is essentially a local crime play right now in British politics or indeed in world politics?

You know, it was a problem.

For the German elections when Elon Musk jumped in and wanted the AfD, the alternative for Deutschland, to win.

It was a problem, you know, for Hungary when we saw Elon Musk and Trump and Vance try and support Orban and keep him in power.

This is what happens when all the kind of the wealth in the world is going into trying to manipulate democracies and politics.

And that is what happens when he says this is an invasion.

Go and do what you need to do.

I mean, that word invasion was used overnight.

It was used by J.D.

Vance at the weekend to talk about another invasion.

crime, the murder of Henry Novak, which came about last week.

And when you start using words like invasion and you have the wealth to throw this stuff around, then yes, what you're doing is you're inciting people out onto the streets.

It wasn't just Belfast.

It was parts of Scotland.

It was Southampton.

And, you know, a lot of the mainstream parties have been slower to realise this is what globalisation looks like in 2026.

You know, it's not about open trade borders anymore.

It's about sort of fascist ideologies creeping from places of extreme wealth and stretching their tentacles into parts of the world where, frankly, people might not welcome them, but they think that they're speaking to a moment because they're scared.

You know, when people are scared, they will listen.