As if the new Labour government doesn’t already have its work cut out trying to get a handle on riots breaking out across the UK, it is also engaged in an ongoing fight with Elon Musk. The US entrepreneur appears to have taken a rather lot of interest in Britain this week – and he’s not pulling any punches when it comes to Starmer’s army. Wading into the ‘two tier policing’ argument, Musk started tagging Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Twitter, blasting him as ‘#TwoTierKeir’ and suggesting that the UK government is overstepping in its criticism of those who incite violence online. ‘Is this Britain or the Soviet Union?’ he fumed about the news that the first person in the UK to be charged with stirring up racial hatred on Facebook will appear in court next week.
And now it appears Elon has turned his attention to lefty Labour backbenchers. On Thursday evening, it emerged that new Labour MP Lauren Edwards had made some rather controversial Twitter posts in the past – with a selection of online comments made between 2009 and 2011 dredged up.
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