UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has accused Conservative MPs of boosting a "far-right" narrative on sexual abuse after Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, said "grooming gangs" were a result of "alien cultures" with "medieval attitudes towards women".
Innocent Muslims have been attacked and even killed over the last several years over a popular far-right narrative blaming Islam and Pakistani culture for child sexual abuse scandals in Britain. Last week Musk accused Starmer of being "complicit in the rape of Britain" during his tenure as director of public prosecutions DPP for supposedly failing to tackle child sexual abuse perpetrated by Pakistani-origin and Muslim men, often called "grooming gangs".
But Starmer said on Monday that online discourse had "crossed a line". He further accused opposition Conservative MPs of "amplifying what the far-right is saying" on child sexual abuse after failing to act "for 14 long years". Last week it emerged that the Labour government had rejected in October a request by Oldham Council for a government-led inquiry into child sexual exploitation in the council, in favour of a local investigation instead.
After Musk posted on X, his social media platform, attacking the Labour government, prominent British politicians intervened to attack Starmer and urge a public inquiry. The Conservative Party's shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick , a minister under the previous government, wrote in a column for the Telegraph : "Not all cultures are equal: importing hundreds of thousands of people from alien cultures, who possess medieval attitudes towards women, brought us here.
He added: "And after 30 years of this disastrous experiment, we now have entrenched sectarian voting blocs that make it electoral suicide for some MPs to confront this. Jenrick has since defended his comments - as has Kemi Badenoch , the leader of the Conservative Party. Statistics indicate that there is no evidence that Pakistanis or Muslims are disproportionately represented among perpetrators of group-based sexual exploitation in Britain.
