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 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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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".

X boss accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of covering up sex crimes committed over a decade ago. Elon Musk accuses Keir Starmer of being complicit in the ‘worst mass crime in British history’ A metal object weighing up to 500 kilograms fell down in the village of Mukuku in southern Kenya on 30 December.