SIR KEIR Starmer has accused Elon Musk of trying to “whip up division” in Britain over the death of Henry Novak.
The Prime Minister launched an attack after the tech billionaire has written more than 100 posts about the UK in the past week focusing on the .
Sir Keir Starmer has slammed Elon Musk over the Henry Novak murder Credit: PA
Elon Musk has tweeted more than 100 times in the last week on UK politics Credit: AFP
Sir Keir blasted the owner of social media site X as tensions rise over the police handling of the finance student’s death.
The killer Vickrum Digwa claimed he had been the victim of a racial attack, while was handcuffed by police who ignored his pleas that he could not breathe as he lay dying.
Speaking on a trip to York, he said: “We need to also assert who we are as a country, because Musk, again, has been interfering in our in the last few days, trying to whip up division – that is not who we are in Britain.
“In Britain, we are reasonable, tolerant people.
“When we have a terrible case like Henry’s case, Henry Nowak, we react calmly, as his family have done.”
Sir Keir said “there are questions that need to be answered” over the police response to the murder.
He said that the Independent Office for Police Conduct should be given space to “get on with their job” in investigating the case.
The PM said: “I think it’s right that there may need to be changes and we shouldn’t shy away from that.
“But we really need to listen to y, because they’re asking us, as politicians, as leaders, not to use his case to whip up division, not to cause disturbances. We have to listen to them.
“They’re grieving, they’ve lost their son, and so everything I’ve tried to do in relation to this case has been grounded in what they must be going through.”
He also backed his own Labour MP Jess Assato who is taking legal action over deepfake images of her in a bikini inisting Musk’s Grok chatbot was used.
The PM added: “Jess Asato is absolutely right in the action she is taking. Disgusting images were created, in her particular case by Grok.
“I am really pleased that we took Grok on a few months ago, because that is the fight we should be in, taking on some of these platforms providers [and] some of these disgusting images, really disgusting.
“We won that. But Jess is right, she is a parliamentarian. I am 100% behind the action that she has taken.”
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