Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips has spoken out against Elon Musk's comments regarding her handling of grooming gangs, stating that they have increased her safety concerns. Phillips defended her decision to reject a national inquiry request and emphasized the importance of local solutions.
Jess Phillips said she does not base her policy decisions on the opinions of ‘a very rich man in America’. Phillips, the safeguarding minister, said the comments had made her more worried about her safety. In an interview with ITV News, Phillips also defended her decision to refuse a council’s request for a second national inquiry into so-called grooming gangs , saying a local process would achieve real change more quickly.
Phillips’ decision over Oldham council’s request for a national inquiry was the prompt for Musk to take an interest in the issue of the grooming scandal in a series of UK towns and cities, including calling for Keir Starmer to be removed as prime minister. “It’s ridiculous isn’t it,” Phillips said when asked how she felt about Musk targeting her. “The things that he’s saying are so ridiculous as to initially make me just go, what? “But then you wake up with the realisation that that’s millions of people he has said that to, and you feel immediately like this is going to turn my world upside down and I have to try and limit for how long that is the case.” Phillips went on: “The thing that annoys me the most about it is – it takes up so much bandwidth of my time from a man who knows absolutely nothing about the subject he’s talking about, when the only thing I ever want to be doing is being able to use all of my brain power to focus on the hundreds of girls I have supported over the years who have been victims of grooming gangs and what needs to happen to make their lives bette
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