The Prime Minister has attacked politicians and activists who “spread lies and misinformation” over grooming gangs.
It comes after multi-billionaire Elon Musk accused Sir Keir Starmer of being “complicit in the rape of Britain” throughout his tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) by failing to deal with grooming gangs.
Senior Conservative and Reform UK MPs have additionally spent the week calling for a nationwide inquiry into little one sexual abuse.
But Sir Keir mentioned: “Those who are spreading lies and misinformation as far as possible have no interest in the victims, they are interested in themselves.”
He mentioned the net debate “crossed a line”, leading to threats in opposition to MPs, together with Security Minister Jess Phillips.
Sir Keir accused the Tories of “jumping on a bandwagon” to draw consideration.
Conservative MPs are “exaggerating what the far-right is saying” on little one sexual abuse after failing to behave for 14 years, he mentioned.
Describing little one sexual abuse as “absolutely disgusting”, Sir Keir defended his report in workplace as DPP – saying he handled the difficulty “head on”.
Sir Keir didn’t identify any of the folks he believed had been spreading lies, however a lot of questions had been requested about Musk following his feedback.
Last week, the tech-entrepreneur has used his platform on his social media web site X to assault the Labor authorities on the difficulty.
Musk accused Phillips of being “rape-genocide advocate” and referred to as for him and Sir Keir to be jailed.
On Monday, Musk launched a ballot asking X customers to vote on whether or not “the US should free the people of Britain from their tyrannical government”.
With inputs from BBC
