There’s no rest for the wicked. Twitter chief Elon Musk has barely come up for air over the last week with his continued attacks on the Labour Prime Minister over Britain’s grooming gang scandal. As calls for a national inquiry intensify, the tech billionaire has taken to his social media site yet again to take a pop at Sir Keir Starmer over the Labour party’s stance on the issue.
In a scathing tweet, Musk wrote this morning:
Now why would Keir Starmtrooper order his own party to block such an inquiry? Because he is hiding terrible things. That is why.
Crikey. The bold claim follows days of accusations aimed at Sir Keir by the Tesla boss – who insisted that, on the issue of grooming gangs, ‘Starmer is complicit in the crimes’ before calling for the UK PM to be incarcerated. Former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has also ended up in Musk’s line of fire, while current Home Office minister Jess Phillips has told media that Elon’s online attacks have ‘endangered’ her. On Monday a 39-year-old man was charged with sending malicious communications to Phillips and this morning the Times has reported that the Labour MP has been assigned close protection officers by Scotland Yard and been advised not to go out in public alone.
And if the Labour lot had been holding out hope that incoming US president Donald Trump would instruct Musk to reign it in, last night will have come as quite a disappointment. In a Mar-a-Lago press conference, the president-elect chose not to distance himself from Musk’s missives and even praised his ally as a ‘very smart guy’ who is ‘doing a very good job’. How this will affect the special relationship remains to be seen.
For its part, No. 10 – alongside various Labour figures, including Victims Minister Alex Davies-Jones – has said there is no need for a new probe because an independent inquiry has already been carried out in 2022 by Professor Alexis Jay. But this explanation has not managed to satisfy the opposition. In fact Musk’s latest dig comes on the day that both the Conservative party and Reform UK hope to force a vote in the Commons today in a bid to trigger a national statutory inquiry, using the reasoned amendment mechanism. Will they get anywhere with this attempt? Watch this space…
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