Tommy Robinson seizes on Elon Musk’s tweet taunting Keir Starmer about grooming gangs – amid worsening war of words between billionaire X owner and PM [Video]

16:06 EDT 06 Aug 2024, updated 20:44 EDT 06 Aug 2024

Tommy Robinson has seized on Elon Musk’s tweet taunting Sir Keir Starmer about grooming gangs, amid a worsening war of words between the social media billionaire and the Prime Minister over race-riots that have broken out across the UK.

The English Defence League founder – whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon -suggested that there are groups of Asian men abusing children ‘in every town and city’ in response to Musk posting a picture of a newspaper front page from 2014.

Showing 10-year-old reporting on the horrific Rotherham child abuse gangs, Musk, 53, asked his 193 million-strong following ‘is this still happening’ in a post where he also tagged Keir Starmer.

It comes amid escalating tensions between the inflammatory X owner and the Prime Minister, as the magnate has been accused of stoking tensions in tinderbox Britain.

And it marks the latest move from Robinson, 41, who has been widely …