In 2012, the Tesla tycoon Elon Musk took a Boris bike on a tour around London bathing in the Olympics love-in, declaring to his Twitter followers that “I really like Britain!”.
Musk had good reason to be pleased that year, having made his first appearance on the prestigious Forbes Billionaire List – with a modest £1.58 billion fortune.
Twelve years later, Musk’s fortune is valued at $251 billion (£191 billion), thanks to Tesla becoming the world’s largest car company. But, jarringly, his valuation of the UK appears to have gone into reverse gear.
