Elon Musk has had a busy weekend, blasting the UK government over Britain’s grooming gang scandal and even turning on Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the last 24 hours. It may be a new week, but Musk’s focus remains very much on the British Isles, with the US tech billionaire this morning taking yet another pop at Sir Keir Starmer – and even turning his guns on his predecessor Gordon Brown.
The future co-leader of Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has now called for the PM to be incarcerated. This morning, Musk quote tweeted an image of the three girls who were tragically killed in the Southport attack last year, writing: ‘Prison for Starmer.’
Just minutes before, the Twitter chief took to his platform to claim that ‘Starmer is complicit in the crimes’. It follows similar attacks by Musk last week on Labour politician Jess Phillips, after it was revealed the Home Office minister insisted it was for Oldham council to carry out an inquiry into the grooming gang scandal, rather than for the government to intervene. In response to the news, Musk wrote that the politician ‘deserves to be in prison’, while simultaneously calling for the release of far-right activist Tommy Robinson. How curious…
Starmer’s predecessor has also come under fire, with former prime minister Gordon Brown facing attacks from the billionaire businessman. Musk quote tweeted a GB News clip about the scandal, writing that: ‘Gordon Brown committed an unforgivable crime against the British people.’ Musk has also called upon the ex-PM to ‘explain’ his actions from the time of the grooming gang revelations, after a number of social media accounts began criticising Brown’s handling of the matter.
And now Sir Keir has hit back. The Times reported that Starmer was expected to highlight in his speech this morning that he gave the ‘green light’ to prosecuting paedophile gangs in Rochdale in 2013, while introducing reforms to how the CPS dealt with child abuse cases. But it seems the Prime Minister has finally had enough of Musk’s meddling, with Sir Keir this morning directing a heated few words at the Twitter CEO. The Labour leader insisted that ‘a line has been crossed’, criticised those spreading the ‘poison of the far right’ and fumed:
Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible, they are not interested in victims, they are interested in themselves. Those who are cheerleading Tommy Robinson are not interested in justice, they are supporting a man who went to prison for nearly collapsing a grooming case, a gang grooming case.
Crikey. Will Musk retaliate? Stay tuned…
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