Elon Musk’s “outrageous” meddling in grooming gangs scandal

<p>Can Elon Musk reshape British democracy?</p><br /><p>The X-owning billionaire has waded into one of the darkest scandals in recent British history: the horrific rape and abuse of thousands of girls across the UK by so-called “grooming gangs”.&nbsp;</p><br /><p>Musk’s inflammatory posts on his social media platform, X, have prompted statements from Keir Starmer, questions from Kemi Badenoch in PMQs, and extensive coverage across the mainstream media.&nbsp;</p><br /><p>How should the UK government respond to a foreign billionaire with a platform that amplifies misinformation to hundreds of millions around the world?</p><br /><p>Andrew Marr joins Hannah Barnes and Rachel Cunliffe on Politics from the New Statesman.</p><br /><p>📚 READ: How does Keir Starmer solve a problem like Elon Musk? - Andrew Marr</p><p>https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/01/how-does-starmer-solve-a-problem-like-elon-musk</p><br /><p>🙋‍♀️ ASK a question:&nbsp;</p><p>We answer listener questions every Friday. Submit your by commenting here, or at www.newstatesman.com/youaskus</p><br /><p>💷 SAVE Become a New Statesman subscriber:</p><p>Get access to all our reporting at newstatesman.com and receive your copy of our weekly magazine. Podcast listeners can get the first two months for just £2 at https://www.newstatesman.com/save</p><br /><p>📧 FREE get our daily politics email</p><p>https://morningcall.substack.com</p><br /><p>🎧 LISTEN to the New Statesman podcast</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@newstatesman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@newstatesman</a></p><br /><p><strong>LISTEN AD-FREE:</strong></p><p>📱<a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2022/06/newapp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Download the New Statesman app</a></p><br /><p><strong>MORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:</strong></p><p>❓ <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/podcasts/2022/10/you-ask-us" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ask a question</a> – we answer them every Friday</p><p>⏰ <a href="https://morningcall.substack.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get our daily politics newsletter</a> every morning</p><p>✍️ <a href="http://saturdayread.substack.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Enjoy the best of our writing</a> via email every Saturday</p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>