Keir Starmer has received a boost in his grooming gangs row with Elon Musk after the head of the national child sex abuse inquiry backed the Prime Minister. Professor Alexis Jay backed Sir Keir by saying there is no need for a new national investigation into the issue.

Britain’s government has been pushed onto the defensive by comments from Elon Musk accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer of complicity in a decades-old scandal over child sexual exploitation gangs.Listen to the Bloomberg UK Politics podcast on Apple,

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips’ decision to block a public inquiry into the Oldham grooming gangs seems, from the outside, to be almost inexplicable. Children were raped and abused by gangs of men while the authorities failed to protect them.

The prime minister has attacked politicians and activists "spreading lies and misinformation" over grooming gangs. It comes after multi-billionaire Elon Musk accused Sir Keir Starmer of being "complicit in the rape of Britain" during his tenure as director of public prosecutions (DPP) for failing to tackle grooming gangs.

Keir Starmer defended his record investigating “grooming gangs,” after Elon Musk inserted himself into British politics and called on the prime minister to resign.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is pushing back against attacks from Elon Musk and conservatives in his own country about the handling of the child grooming scandal.

Without naming Mr. Musk directly, Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced the billionaire’s spreading of falsehoods about a child sex abuse scandal.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has criticized those “spreading lies and misinformation” about child sex grooming gangs in the United Kingdom, responding to an online storm whipped up by Elon Musk.