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Musk’s intervention in UK politics ‘misinformed’: minister

By AFP
January 04, 2025
Health Secretary Wes Streeting (left) and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. — Reuters/File
Health Secretary Wes Streeting (left) and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. — Reuters/File

LONDON: A senior government minister on Friday criticised Elon Musk´s latest intervention in British politics as “misjudged and certainly misinformed”.

Tech billionaire Musk a day earlier accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failing to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions.

In a string of posts on his X platform, Musk also suggested that safeguarding minister Jess Phillips “deserves to be in prison” for refusing a request for a national public inquiry into a child sexual exploitation scandal in the northern English city of Oldham.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting told ITV News television that Musk´s comments were wide of the mark and the government took child sexual exploitation “incredibly seriously”.