What Elon Musk’s tweets about sex abuse reveal about British politics
An offline prime minister faces an online leader of the opposition
ELON MUSK’S barrage of posts about sexual-abuse scandals in Britain tells you a lot about the temperament of the owner of X, a man with the ear of America’s president-elect. The predation by largely Pakistani gangs on girls in English towns was first seriously reported on in 2011. Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister (who was chief prosecutor back then), was “complicit in the rape of Britain”, Mr Musk wrote; he mused about whether America should “liberate” the British people.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Offline Keir, online Kemi ”
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