Trump praises Musk as ‘smart guy’ when quizzed on Labour attacks

It’s been an eventful week for UK-US relations. Twitter CEO Elon Musk has spent much of it berating the Labour government over Britain’s grooming gang scandal, calling first for Home Office minister Jess Phillips to take the place of far-right activist Tommy Robinson in prison before going on to say that Prime Minister Keir Starmer should be incarcerated. Crikey.

The tech billionaire’s attacks have been so relentless that even Sir Keir’s big healthcare speech on Monday was overshadowed by the media attention on Musk. Starmer has now hit back at the Tesla boss, remarking that: ‘Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible, they are not interested in victims, they are interested in themselves.’ Ouch. Not that it’s done much to deter Elon, who has continued his attacks on the Labour lot – and even suggested that Americans should ‘liberate’ Brits from ‘their tyrannical government’.