Keir blasts ‘desperate’ Musk for ‘whipping up violence’ & says Tommy Robinson has ‘no interest in victims’ after X rant
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SIR Keir Starmer has hit back at Elon Musk over the grooming gangs row, blasting him and far-right agitator Tommy Robinson for "spreading lies and misinformation.". The PM slammed the richest man in the world and Robinson for “not being interested in justice”.
![[Sir Keir Keir Starmer gives a speech on reducing NHS wait times as he visits a healthcare provider in Surrey]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/britains-prime-minister-keir-starmer-961926118.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
It comes after the Tesla boss has spent the last week savaging Labour online for refusing to hold a public inquiry into historic sexual abuse by grooming gangs in Oldham. He attacked the decision, taken by safeguarding minister Jess Phillips as “disgraceful” and said she should be in prison.
![[Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/crop-32628488.jpg?strip=all&quality=100&w=960)
He also backed the former EDL leader, describing him as a political prisoner. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed in October after admitting contempt of court by repeating false claims against a Syrian refugee. Facing reporters after an NHS speech, Sir Keir was asked if he was angry about Musk’s criticism of Ms Phillips.
![[Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jess-phillips-talk-series-interviews-924288390.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Defending his record, he said: “Let me start with this: Child sexual exploitation is utterly sickening. Utterly sickening. And for many, many years too many victims have been completely let down. “Let down by perverse ideas about community relations or by the idea that institutions must be protected above all else and they have not been listened to and they have not been heard.
![[Founder and former leader of the anti-Islam English Defence League (EDL) Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/crop-31361224.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
“And when I was chief prosecutor for five years I tackled that head on because I could see what was happening and that is why I reopened cases that had been closed and supposedly finished, I brought the first major prosecution of an Asian grooming gang in the particular case it was in Rochdale but it was the first of its kind, there were many that then followed that format.
