Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips’ decision to block a public inquiry into the Oldham grooming gangs seems, from the outside, to be almost inexplicable. Children were raped and abused by gangs of men while the authorities failed to protect them.

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.

The scandal is real. But Elon Musk’s incendiary rhetoric about British politics are doing more harm than good.

UK lawmakers voted against a proposal to launch a new inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. The scandal, which came into the limelight in 2010, involved young girls being allegedly abused by British-Pakistani men.

Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said the blame for grooming gangs in UK cannot be laid on Asia, but "one rogue nation" Pakistan, a statement SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said was "true".

Britain’s government has been pushed onto the defensive by comments from Elon Musk accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer of complicity in a decades-old scandal over child sexual exploitation 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”.

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.

Elon Musk reopened the scandal surrounding gangs of men who groomed, assaulted, and raped girls across England, calling Keir Starmer, UK's Prime Minister, "complicit in the rape of Britain".

Keir Starmer's war of words with world's richest man Elon Musk over grooming gangs scandal. The Prime Minister has ripped into the X boss over his comments slamming the UK Government and for his 'disgraceful smear' of Jess Philipps.