Keir Starmer has slapped down Andy Burnham after he broke ranks with the prime minister to call for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. The prime minister has insisted that the government’s priority should be to implement the recommendations from Professor Alexis Jay’s own inquiry into child sexual abuse,

The UK’s Conservative Party tried and failed to force PM Keir Starmer into holding a national inquiry into a scandal surrounding so-called child grooming gangs.

Sir Keir Starmer has accused tech billionaire Elon Musk and right-wing populists of spreading lies about child abuse grooming gangs and warned “they have crossed a line”.

Tech tycoon Elon Musk tweeted ‘prison for Starmer’ and claimed previous Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown committed an ‘unforgivable crime against the British people’

Elon Musk’s drift to the far-right and his burgeoning clash with the U.K government is part of a wider plan to oust prime minister Keir Starmer before the next election and plot the ascension of a far-right government,

Elon Musk has been tweeting incessantly for days about a grooming gang scandal that is setting the political weather in Britain, but the origins of how it came onto the radar of the world's richest man can be traced back a decade.