Britain wants to get close to Trump. Will Elon Musk stand in the way?
Britain wants to get close to Trump. Will Elon Musk stand in the way? It wasn’t the beginning of 2025 that Keir Starmer had anticipated or desired: in the early hours of New Year’s Day, Elon Musk unleashed a barrage of critical posts and accusations aimed at the British prime minister, drawing his government into a highly public conflict. Elon Musk (right) has waged an angry and predominantly one-way feud with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. In the days following, the world’s wealthiest individual revisited a long-standing, painful scandal involving grooming gangs and advocated for the release of Tommy Robinson, a jailed far-right activist with a growing social media presence. The tech mogul, who played a significant role in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has posted or reshared content about child abuse cases in the UK on X over 5...