Keir Starmer responds to Elon Musk’s government attacks during major NHS speech

WorldPolitics
6 Jan 2025 • 7:05 PM MYT
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Sir Keir Starmer has addressed recent government criticism by Elon Musk in a major speech on NHS reform.

The prime minister responded to Mr Musk following a flurry of lurid claims by the billionaire that Sir Keir was “complicit in the rape of Britain” while director of public prosecutions over the issue of grooming gangs operating in the north of England.

Asked by the BBC about suggestions by Mr Musk that the US should “liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government”, Sir Keir said: “I don’t really have any comments on the particular comment that was made this morning by Musk.”

During a press conference on Monday (6 January), Sir Keir was also pressed on Mr Musk’s lurid claims that safeguarding minister Jess Phillips “should be in jail”.

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