A Labour MP has suggested Sir Keir Starmer's Government could ban X after Elon Musk attacked Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips for her role in the grooming gangs scandal. Darlington MP Lola McEvoy,

Rupert Soames, who is the grandson of Winston Churchill, backed the Labour politician days after the billionaire used his X social media platform to accuse her of being a “rape genocide apologist”.

Jess Phillips has said she has "more important things to be thinking about" than Elon Musk after he accused her of being a "rape genocide apologist".

A British minister who Elon Musk has described as a "rape genocide apologist" says the US billionaire knows "absolutely nothing" about the child sexual abuse scandals he has been commenting on.

Jess Phillips has reportedly had her security bolstered after Elon Musk launched into a furious social media tirade against the home office minister over the government’s decision to reject a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.

Cathy Newman: Elon Musk launched his attack after you rebuffed Oldham Council’s request for an inquiry into historical abuse in the town. Do you stand by that decision not to hold an inquiry, despite the fact that Alexis Jay’s inquiry only mentioned Rotherham, for example, once in 468 pages.

The boss of the CBI has warned Elon Musk he will have to “come through me first” in an extraordinary defence of home office minister Jess Phillips. Rupert Soames, who is the grandson of Winston Churchill,

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