Elon Musk's attack on Jess Phillips over her response to grooming gangs in the UK is a "disgraceful smear", Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said. Tech multi-billionaire Musk posted messages on his social media site X saying the safeguarding minister should be jailed and calling her a "rape genocide apologist",

Nigel Farage has launched a defense of Elon Musk’s incendiary social media attacks on Keir Starmer, claiming that “free speech is back” under the Tesla tycoon’s ownership of X. The Reform UK leader said that “tough things get said” in public life after Mr Musk described safeguarding minister Jess Phillips as a “rape genocide apologist” who should be in jail.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are locked in a heated public spat over allegations surrounding grooming gangs. Musk accused Starmer of failing to bring perpetrators to justice during his tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions,