After weeks of letting the attacks slide, Keir Starmer addressed comments made by Elon Musk, who has been slamming the Labour government and inserting himself into national debate in the United Kingdom. Without naming the American billionaire, but pointing the finger at him, on Monday, January 6, the British prime minister said "a line has been crossed" and denounced the "lies and misinformation" spread by Musk on X, which he owns, about pedophile gangs that have been operating since the mid-2000s in the north of England.

Multiplying his personal and defamatory attacks over the festive season, Musk accused Starmer of having "been complicit in the rape of Britain," when he was the UK's chief prosecutor between 2008 and 2013. On Monday morning, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX even called for "prison for Starmer," as well as for Jess Phillips, his secretary of state for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, despite the Birmingham MP's unwavering commitment to victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Expected to become a key figure in the future administration of US president-elect Donald Trump in two weeks, Musk called Phillips a "rape genocide apologist" and a "witch."

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