Multi-billionaire Elon Musk has accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of being "deeply complicit in the mass rapes in exchange for votes". Mr Musk has published a series of posts on X suggesting Starmer failed to deal with the grooming gang scandal while head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) between 2008 and 2013.

Facing criticism, Starmer defended his record during his tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) from 2008 to 2013. Responding to Musk’s accusations that he failed to act decisively on grooming gangs,

The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural society

The prime minister says those who spread misinformation about child sexual exploitation are "not interested in victims".

Matthew James Goodwin, a prominent British political scientist, recently questioned the media's handling of the UK's grooming gangs scandal, suggesting that it has not received sufficient coverage. His remarks sparked criticism from some journalists,

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is pushing back against attacks from Elon Musk and conservatives in his own country about the handling of the child grooming scandal.

A child sexual abuse scandal that revealed how gangs of mostly Pakistani men had groomed, trafficked and raped young white girls more than a decade ago, has returned to the political agenda in Britain following criticism from Elon Musk.