Elon Musk is turning Sir Keir’s American dream into a nightmare but there are three ways PM will tackle the problem
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SIR Keir Starmer dreamt of a close relationship with the Trump administration — but Elon Musk is turning it into a nightmare. The world’s richest man has used his social media site X/Twitter to launch an all-out war on the Labour PM. In a series of explosive posts, Musk accused Sir Keir of covering up rape gangs, claiming he should be prosecuted.
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He also called on the King to dissolve Parliament and call an election. Musk went on to demand Tommy Robinson be released from prison. The scale of this online assault would leave any No10 team spinning. But for Sir Keir it is a potential hammer blow to his hopes of a special relationship with the Trump White House.
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“It is bad”, one Labour insider said. “For now we are sticking to a vow of silence on the Musk stuff — we don’t want to inflame tensions.”. Elon Musk is not only the world’s richest man with the power to make or break economies with his investments.
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He is also part of Donald Trump’s new administration and has the ear of the incoming US President. He was there with Trump at Mar-a-Lago for election night, and will be firmly by his side advising him on policy in the White House. Musk describes himself as coming from an English/British background and has spoken fondly of his “tough but sensible” Liverpudlian nana, Cora Amelia Robinson.
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But he thinks the UK is facing terminal decline — smothered by high taxes, anti-business red tape and pointless woke diktats. If he urges Trump not to bother cutting a deal with the UK and to clobber us with the same crippling trade tariffs he is planning for China and the EU, it will mean higher prices and perhaps job losses here.
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