LONDON: A senior government minister on Friday slammed Elon Musk’s latest foray into British politics as “misjudged and certainly misinformed”.
Tech billionaire Musk accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer a day earlier of failing to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions.
In a series of posts on his X platform, Musk also suggested that Security Minister Jess Phillips “deserves to be in jail” for refusing a request for a national public inquiry into the child sex abuse scandal in the northern English town of Oldham. “.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting told ITV News television that Musk’s comments were widespread and that the government took child sexual abuse “incredibly seriously”.