Britain’s far-left Labour government is threatening to abandon its intelligence and national security relationships with the United States unless President-elect Donald J. Trump ends the influence of tech mogul Elon Musk in his incoming White House. According to the BBC, the demand comes from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer himself in response to Musk’s recent comments regarding Muslim grooming gangs in the country.
“There is absolute horror at the highest levels of the government at the incendiary language we have seen from Elon Musk,” BBC Newsnight reporter Nick Watt claims, adding: “And there’s going to be, as I understand it, a hard-headed assessment. Is this just the view of Elon Musk, or is it the view of the wider administration and the incoming President Donald Trump?”
Watt continues, suggesting if Musk’s view of Britain’s handling of the rape gangs is held more broadly, the Labour government could isolate from America’s broad and powerful security network. “[T]here may well be some very, very serious questions about the nature of our ongoing security partnership with the United States,” the BBC reporter said.
Musk’s recent comments regarding groomer rapists in Britain are not his first. The South African-American billionaire and space exploration innovator posed the question of whether groups of Muslim men were still preying on British girls in August on his X (formerly Twitter) social media platform. At least one victim of the gangs responded in the affirmative.
Meanwhile, in 2023—after purchasing X—Musk reinstated anti-grooming gang activist Tommy Robinson, who had been suspended by the social media platform’s prior owners.
