Wes Streeting: Elon Musk’s attacks are a ‘disgraceful smear’
Elon Musk has spent this week calling for the release of the far-right campaigner Tommy Robinson, and launching attacks at British politicians over a failure to prosecute gangs who groomed and raped young girls over a number of years in the north of England. Musk said Keir Starmer, who was director of public prosecutions when the scandal first came to light, was ‘complicit in the rape of Britain’, and also said safeguarding minister Jess Phillips should be in jail. On the BBC this morning, Health Secretary Wes Streeting told Laura Kuenssberg that Elon Musk and other social media bosses could do more to protect women on their platforms. Streeting claimed Musk’s criticism was ‘ill-judged and ill-founded’, and said that Starmer and Phillips had done more than most others in their professional careers to lock up sexual predators.
Nigel Farage: ‘I believe in free speech, even if what people say is offensive’
Kuenssberg also spoke to Reform leader Nigel Farage.
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