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Keir Starmer slaps down Elon Musk over ‘civil war’ comment

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When Rishi Sunak was prime minister, he welcomed Elon Musk as a guest of honour at the government’s AI summit, with the pair even having a fireside chat. However, the new inhabitant of No. 10 takes a different approach to the billionaire owner of X and Tesla. This afternoon, Keir Starmer’s spokesman has slapped down Musk over comments he made online suggesting civil war in the UK was ‘inevitable’ following a wave of violent disorder in the past week.

Asked by journalists about the remark that Musk made on his own social media platform, Starmer’s spokesperson said ‘there is no justification for comments like that’. They went on:

What we’ve seen in this country is organized, illegal thuggery which has no place on our streets or online. We’re talking about a minority of thugs that do not speak for Britain … The prime minister doesn’t share those [Musk’s] sentiments.

Musk has since continued the feud.

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