Billionaire and owner of X Elon Musk has attacked Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour government over its response to grooming gangs in the UK. Pressure has mounted on the prime minister after safeguarding minister Jess Phillips denied requests for the Home Office to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation and grooming in Oldham.

Keir Starmer will be “gone by February”, the father of Elon Musk has astonishingly claimed on GB News. Speaking to Tom Harwood and Emily Carver, the tech mogul’s dad let rip at the job done by Starmer as Labour mark six months in power.

Elon Musk has continued his criticism of the UK government, calling on the King to step in and dissolve parliament after Labour rejected a call for a national inquiry into child grooming. The tech billionaire triggered an explosive row on Thursday over Sir Keir Starmer ’s handling of historic child abuse in Oldham after he suggested the prime minister had failed to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions.

Elon Musk's attacks on the UK Government's handling of child grooming gangs are "misjudged and certainly misinformed", Wes Streeting said.