Question Time panellist left open-mouthed at Donald Trump and Elon Musk decisions

Question Time today, held successful Basingstoke, featured a treatment astir Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and however their operation volition impact the concern successful Ukraine and the economy

Donald Trump and Elon Musk's decisions this week near Green Party MP Ellie Chowns "open-mouthed".

Speaking connected Question Time connected Thursday night, the MP for North Herefordshire blasted the caller operation successful the US, formed aft Mr Trump, 78, appointed Musk to a White House furniture role. Mr Trump described the presumption arsenic "The Manhattan Project" of our time.

The Manhattan Project was a probe and improvement programme, led by the US successful collaboration with the UK and Canada during World War II, to nutrient the archetypal atomic weapons. Mr Trump's examination has divided sentiment crossed the globe - and Ms Chowns, 49, expressed her interest astatine the move.

She told the BBC programme: "I've been near open-mouthed by them this week... We've truly got crushed to beryllium disquieted astir this determination successful America and peculiarly due to the fact that these are truly superior times, truthful we request superior radical astatine the apical astatine the astir almighty state successful the world."

Ms Chowns, making her archetypal quality connected Question Time, besides told the assemblage successful Basingstoke, Hampshire she is anxious astir however the Trump-Musk operation volition impact the concern successful Ukraine.

"Ultimately immoderate struggle has to travel to a negotiated colony successful the end, but you've got to negociate from a presumption of strength, and if we person Trump saying fundamentally 'I'm blessed to propulsion the rug retired from underneath Ukraine,' that's a implicit betrayal essentially," the animated politician, 1 of 4 Green Party MPs successful power, added.

"So I americium genuinely disquieted astir the absorption of Trump and I deliberation it is each the much important past that we bash fortify our narration with our European partners, and that we basal up for our values arsenic good and decidedly not rotation implicit successful beforehand of what could beryllium rather a escaped cannon America successful the coming fewer years."

Mr Trump and Mr Musk's relationship comes conscionable 2 years aft tech mogul Mr Musk, 53, criticised the politician. In 2022, Mr Musk has tweeted: "Time for Trump to bent up his chapeau and sail into the sunset," adding helium believed that the "legal maximum property for [the] commencement of Presidential word should beryllium 69".

But Mr Trump overcame Kamela Harris's Democrats easy earlier this period to seal a instrumentality to government. The media property has already been ringing the changes, nominated Robert Francis Kennedy Jr, 70, to pb the Department of Heath and Human Services successful his 2nd White House administration.