The Labour safeguarding minister branded Elon Musk's claims about her "ridiculous" and said she will not be silenced.

Jess Phillips has said her “world has been turned upside down” after Elon Musk accused her of being an “evil witch” who should be jailed. The world’s richest man hit out after the safeguarding minister reportedly rejected calls for a public inquiry into historic child abuse in Oldham.

Jess Phillips has spoken about her fears for her life for the first time since Elon Musk unleashed a torrent of abuse against her over the child grooming scandal.

A British minister who Elon Musk has described as a "rape genocide apologist" says the US billionaire knows "absolutely nothing" about the child sexual abuse scandals he has been commenting on.

Wes Streeting has said attacks made by Elon Musk on Jess Phillips over grooming gangs are a “disgraceful smear” considering the Labour minister’s efforts to support victims of abuse. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

Responding for the first time to the erratic tech billionaire, Ms Phillips said Mr Musk "knows absolutely nothing about the subject he's talking about" and she wouldn't make her decisions based on a "

Elon Musk has been tweeting incessantly for days about a grooming gang scandal that is setting the political weather in Britain, but the origins of how it came onto the radar of the world’s richest man can be traced back a decade.

A raft of erratic social media posts by the billionaire tech mogul has put a decades-long child sexual abuse scandal back under the political spotlight. View on euronews

Jess Phillips has said Elon Musk “knows absolutely nothing” about the grooming gangs after the owner of X attacked her on social media. Speaking to BBC Newsnight, the Home Office minister said her life had been put in danger after Musk branded her a “rape genocide apologist”.