Elon Musk has questioned whether the United States should “liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government” after hitting out at top U.K. lawmakers[…]
In a series of posts on the X social media platform — which Musk owns — the tech tycoon hit out at the U.K.’s Labour government, criticizing its handling of historic child abuse scandals

Musk accused the U.K. Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips of being a “rape genocide apologist” on Friday, before publishing a series of posts calling for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to be ousted and face jail time over how child grooming gangs and other criminals who targeted children have been prosecuted

His criticisms of the U.K. government over the weekend culminated in a poll, where he posed the concept of “liberating the people of Britain” to the platform’s users

Musk’s comments came after Phillips rejected calls for a government-led inquiry into child sexual exploitation in the town of Oldham[…]
The skirmish with Musk — who has landed a job leading a new unofficial office for the incoming Trump administration — takes place two weeks ahead of the inauguration of the second presidency of Trump, amid questions over the fate of the “special relationship” between the U.K. and the U.S.