Jess Phillips hits back at ‘ridiculous’ Elon Musk but says abuse has ‘turned my world… [Video]

7 January 2025, 18:52

By Henry Moore

Jess Phillips has hit back at Elon Musk and said she has “more important things to think about” after the billionaire branded her a “rape genocide apologist.”

Mr Musk, the billionaire ally of Donald Trump, launched an attack on Ms Phillips on his social media platform X, accusing her of covering up for grooming gangs in the UK.

Speaking today, Ms Phillips, who is Labour’s safeguarding minister, said the “misinformation” spread by Musk has “endangered” her and “turned her world upside down.”

Elon Musk took aim at Ms Phillips after she rejected calls for a national inquiry into grooming gangs that abused young girls across England.

There has already been a seven-year national inquiry into child abuse in England and Wales, commissioned in 2015.

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