UK Home Office minister Jess Phillips accuses Elon Musk of spreading 'disinformation' about grooming gangs, putting her life in danger. The dispute arises from Musk's demand for a national inquiry into historic grooming cases, which Phillips rejected.
Home Office minister Jess Phillips has said that disinformation spread by Elon Musk about grooming gangs in the UK and the government’s response is endangering her life. Phillips has come under sustained attack from the technology billionaire, who has labelled her an evil witch and rape genocide apologist, while calling for her to be jailed.
Britain has been convulsed in recent days by a dispute over the handling of historic grooming cases involving sexual exploitation of girls by gangs of mainly British-Pakistani men after Musk called for a new national inquiry into the scandal. Musk’s outbursts against Phillips, who holds the safeguarding brief in the UK government, began after it emerged she had rejected a request by Oldham council for the Home Office to hold a Whitehall-led inquiry into the grooming scandal in the Greater Manchester town. The Home Office has instead urged the local authority to undertake its own review, citing precedents for probes in other towns afflicted by rape gangs, including Telford and Rotherham, while highlighting a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation that concluded in 2022. On Tuesday Phillips told the BBC that threats to her own life had increased since Musk’s salvos against her on his social media platform X, describing the situation as very tiring, but adding: “I’m no stranger to people who don’t know what they’re talking about trying to silence women like me.” However, she added that her treatment at the hands of Musk was nothing in comparison to the experience of abuse victims. Phillips told Sky News that SpaceX-owner Musk should crack on with getting to Mars and expressed her anger at political opponents, including Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, who have pushed for a national inquiry into grooming gangs after Musk made the same demand. Musk has been approached for commen
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