UK Prime Minister Starmer hits back at Elon Musk

UK Prime Minister Starmer hits back at Elon Musk

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer hit back at Elon Musk yesterday after the world’s richest man repeatedly lobbed a host of inflammatory allegations at the country’s leader over his government’s record on a long-running national child grooming scandal.

Musk has accused the United Kingdom leader of being “complicit in the rape of Britain” on his X platform and has repeatedly elevated claims without evidence that Starmer knowingly refused to prosecute child groomers when he was the country’s top lawyer.

Throughout the past 48 hours alone, Musk called for Starmer to be imprisoned and posted a poll to his X followers posing the question as to whether “America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government.”

While the British leader did not name Musk directly, he widely condemned what he said was the spread of false information.

“Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible, they’re not interested in victims. They’re interested in themselves,” Starmer said, addressing reporters at a news conference yesterday.

Musk’s barbs are in reference to a years-long scandal in Britain over the state’s response to child sexual exploitation and grooming gangs, mostly consisting of Pakistani men, who targeted vulnerable young girls in multiple towns across northern England.