Keir Starmer is as ‘guilty as anyone’ over failures to tackle grooming gangs, a former detective claimed last night.
As pressure mounted on the Government to deliver a public inquiry into the scandal, whistleblower Maggie Oliver said she had no faith in the Prime Minister’s desire to get to the truth.
Ms Oliver, who helped expose the failure to tackle paedophile gangs in Rochdale, intervened after Labour blocked calls for a public inquiry into rape and sexual abuse by gangs in neighbouring Oldham.
It came as Sir Keir was drawn into an extraordinary public spat with Elon Musk over his handling of the scandal during his five years as Director of Public Prosecutions.
The world’s richest man said the Prime Minister was ‘complicit’ in ‘the worst mass crime in the history of Britain’.
Tesla founder Mr Musk, who has emerged as Donald Trump‘s right-hand man, also launched a vitriolic attack on safeguarding minister Jess Phillips over her decision to refuse a public inquiry, which triggered the latest row.
Mr Musk also shared a post asking whether King Charles ‘should dissolve Parliament and order a general election… for the sake and security’ of Britain.
In a further sign of diplomatic trouble to come, Mr Trump himself savaged Labour’s controversial Net Zero plans.