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Starmer
criticises Elon Musk for trying to 'whip up division' in UK in light of Nowak
murder
Keir
Starmer has criticised Elon Musk for trying to “whip up division” in the UK
following the murder of Henry Nowak and the conclusion of the trial of his
killer.
The PM
spoke out after it was revealed that Musk has written more than 110 posts
retweets and replies on X, the social media platform that he owns, about
British politics since last Wednesday. That is far more than he has written
about SpaceX, his company which is about to launch on the stock market.
Musk
champions far-right politicians and parties on X, and most of his posts have
been about the Nowak case, where he has strongly endorsed the view that the
student was a victim of anti-white racism by the police. Although once close to
Nigel Farage, Musk is now promoting Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain party, which
is even more extreme and anti-migrant than Reform UK.
Starmer
normally avoids commenting on Musk, who has been fiercely critical of Starmer
on X since early last year, when his tweets played a huge role in putting the
grooming gangs scandal at the top of the political agenda.
But
today, asked about Musk, Starmer said:
We need
to also assert who we are as a country, because Musk, again, has been
interfering in our politics in the last few days, trying to whip up division,
that is not who we are in Britain.
In
Britain, we are reasonable, tolerant people.
When we
have a terrible case like Henry’s case, Henry Nowak, we react calmly as his
family have done.
Today the
Financial Times has published a report about Musk’s recent interventions. In
their story, Amy Borrett, Rachel Rees and Joel Suss say:
Elon
Musk’s interventions in UK politics have reignited over the past week,
prompting concerns about the influence of the world’s richest man ahead of a
byelection that could trigger a change in prime minister.
Musk has
written more than 110 posts, retweets and replies about British politics since
last Wednesday on his social media platform X, with a focus on the murder of
student Henry Nowak.
UK
politics accounted for more than one-third of his X activity over the past
week, according to FT analysis – almost three times the share devoted to
SpaceX, even as Musk sought a $1.8tn valuation in his satellite and AI
company’s highly anticipated IPO on 12 June.
Starmer
was speaking in a pooled TV interview, and he criticised Musk’s interventions
in the Nowak scandal after being asked about the decision by the Labour MP Jess
Asato to take legal action against Musk’s xAI company over its Grok tool being
used to produce a fake sexualised pictures of her.
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