British minister says Musk ‘misinformed’ on UK child grooming scandals
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British Health Secretary Wes Streeting says Musk’s views are ‘misjudged and certainly misinformed’.
A senior British politician has rejected Elon Musk’s criticism of the government’s handling of historic child grooming scandals.
The US technology billionaire on Thursday accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failing to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions more than a decade ago.
In a flurry of posts on X, the social media platform he owns, Musk also suggested that safeguarding minister Jess Phillips “deserves to be in prison” for refusing a request for a national public inquiry into the Oldham scandal.
On Friday, British Health Secretary Wes Streeting said Musk’s views were “misjudged and certainly misinformed”. He urged Musk, a close confidant of US President-elect Donald Trump, to work with the government on tackling the issue of child sexual exploitation.
“So if he wants to work with us and roll his sleeves up, we’d welcome that,” he added.
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