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Musk accused of ‘disgraceful smear’ in attacks against safeguarding minister
Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk during the opening plenary at the AI safety summit, the first global summit on the safe use of artificial intelligence, at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. Picture date: Wednesday November 1, 2023

ELON MUSK'S attacks against safeguarding minster Jess Phillips over grooming gangs were labelled a “disgraceful smear” today.

The tech billionaire owner of social media platform X, Tesla and Space X suggested Ms Philips “deserves to be in prison” and called her a “rape genocide apologist.”

His comments came after she denied requests for the Home Office to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham.

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