The U.K. prime minister said he had tackled the “utterly sickening” crime “head on” as director of public prosecutions (DPP) — and appeared to accuse Musk, who in recent days boosted a jailed far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson, for “spreading lies and misinformation.”

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.