ELON Musk is reportedly plotting ways to oust Sir Keir Starmer before the next election.
Musk has spent the past few days going on fiery online tirades against the British government, slamming the PM and other UK politicians.
According to the Financial Times, the world’s wealthiest individual has reportedly communicated with associates in private discussions regarding tactics to disrupt the British government.
A source told the outlet that Musk was reportedly motivated by concerns that “western civilisation itself was threatened” by the policies of Starmer.
Reports suggest that the billionaire has specifically inquired about the feasibility of generating backing for other political factions in the UK, particularly the Reform UK party.
This could be in an attempt to force a change of prime minister before the next election, according to the Financial Times.
Musk has taken a growing interest in UK politics since Starmer’s election, directly criticising him during the summer riots.
And now his interventions calling for an inquiry into grooming gangs have sparked a political row in Westminster.
Musk has openly accused Starmer, a past director of public prosecutions for England and Wales recognized for addressing cases of child sexual abuse, of playing a role in “enabling” sexual assault in Britain.
However, the PM has dismissed growing demands for a new inquiry, insisting a previous investigation has already uncovered the horrors that shook a series of northern towns.
Starmer has strongly rejected Musk’s criticisms of his time as a prosecutor.
He said on Monday that those “spreading lies and misinformation” were not interested in victims but rather “themselves”.
Musk has also described Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, as a “rape genocide apologist”.
It came after she 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.
Ministers fear Musk’s attacks on the government will continue, and that his apparent support for Reform UK could damage Labour’s prospects at the next election.
Musk set up a UK-based company last month, called X.AI London Ltd — after the social media company he owns.
It is viewed as a potential means of Musk making political donations, which he is said to be considering to help Reform, despite a recent apparent rift with Nigel Farage, the party’s leader.
In a shock move over the weekend, Musk distanced himself from Farage.
It came just hours after the opposition politician had defended the world’s richest man for his attacks on PM Sir Keir Starmer and his handling of the grooming gangs scandal.
Billionaire Musk said “the Reform party needs a new leader” and that “Farage doesn’t have what it takes”.
Musk and the Labour Party have been contacted for comment by The Sun.
GROOMING GANG ROW
Meanwhile, Labour MPs for Northern towns blighted by rape gangs voted against a new inquiry into the scandal yesterday.
Sir Keir whipped the MPs for Rochdale, Rotherham and Oldham and hundreds of others to defeat the bid for a new probe – just hours after No10 said the PM as “open minded” to a new investigation.
In a heated PMQs spat yesterday, Ms Badenoch said: “The Prime Minister called for nine inquiries in the last parliament. Does he not feel that by resisting this one, people will start to worry about a cover-up.”
Her remarks echoed the attacks by Elon Musk who accused Sir Keir of denying an inquiry “because he is hiding terrible things”.
The animated Labour leader hit back at his Tory rival for taking a “short-sighted, misguided, bandwagon-jumping approach”.
He said victims of the rape gangs scandal “want action now, not the delay of a further inquiry”.
Sir Keir warned: “The Jay inquiry, the last national inquiry was seven years which would take us with a further inquiry to 2031, I think action is what’s required.”
Ms Badenoch blasted back: “Be a leader, not a lawyer. We know that people were scared to tell the truth because they thought they would be called racist. If we want to stop this from ever happening again, we cannot be afraid.”
She added: “It is very possible to have shorter inquiries, especially if they are covering areas that have not been looked at yet.”
Ms Badenoch plans to table an amendment in the Commons to the Government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
It will call for a specific investigation into failings and cover-ups in about 60 northern towns over Pakistani-heritage rape gangs.
Why has Tommy Robinson been jailed?
By Ryan Merrifield
Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after showing a film containing slurs about a Syrian refugee.
The 41-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, appeared at Woolwich Crown Court after breaching a 2021 High Court order barring him from repeating false claims about a then-schoolboy.
Far-right activist Robinson was accused of being in contempt of court over having “published, caused, authorised or procured” a film titled Silenced, which contained the libellous allegations.
Contempt of court is a legal term that describes behaviour that interferes with the justice process or risks unfairly influencing a court case, according to Gov.uk.
The Solicitor General said he “knowingly” breached the order on four occasions.
Robinson breached a 2021 High Court order barring him from repeating false claims about then-schoolboy Jamal Hijazi, who successfully sued him for libel.
The Solicitor General issued the first contempt claim against Robinson in June 2024, claiming he “knowingly” breached the order on four occasions.
In court last year, Robinson admitted the charges.
Lawyers previously told a judge that the breaches included Robinson having “published, caused, authorised or procured” a film titled Silenced, which contained the libellous allegations, in May 2023.
The second claim was issued in August, concerning six further breaches, including playing the film to a demonstration in Trafalgar Square in central London earlier this year, which lawyers for the Solicitor General told an earlier hearing was a “flagrant” breach of the court order.
Aidan Eardley KC, for the Solicitor General, said the film was viewed “very extensively”, including being seen by 2.2 million people after being reposted by Andrew Tate.
And, he said in written submissions that by the time the second claim was issued, it “had received 44m views on X alone”.
He claimed that all of the paragraphs of the injunction were breached “at one point or another” by the film.
The sentence for contempt of court can be up to two years imprisonment at the Crown Court or one month at the magistrates’ court.
Silenced is a film which contains the false and libellous allegations about Mr Hijazi which Robinson was banned from repeating.
Sasha Wass KC, for Robinson, told the court that the film’s production was funded by Infowars, a company run by American Alex Jones, who has claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.
The activist played the film to a demonstration in Trafalgar Square in central London.
It also remains pinned to the top of Robinson’s profile on social media site X, while he also repeated the claims in three interviews between February and June 2023.
