Elon Musk ‘plots to OUST Keir Starmer before next election as billionaire holds secret meetings with anti-Labour allies’

A source told the outlet that Musk was reportedly motivated by concerns that “western civilisation itself was threatened” by the policies of Starmer.

It is claimed the billionaire has now sought information about whether it might be possible to build support for alternative British political movements — notably the Reform UK party.

This could be in an attempt to force a change of prime minister before the next election, according to the FT.

Musk has taken a growing interest in UK politics since Starmer’s election, directly criticising him during the summer riots.

And now his interventions calling for an inquiry into grooming gangs have sparked a political row in Westminster.

Musk has accused Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions in England and Wales who tackled child sexual abuse, of being “complicit” in the rape of Britain.

However, the PM has dismissed growing demands for a new inquiry, insisting a previous investigation has already uncovered the horrors that shook a series of northern towns.

Starmer has strongly rejected Musk’s criticisms of his time as a prosecutor.

He said on Monday that those “spreading lies and misinformation” were not interested in victims but rather “themselves”.

Musk has also described Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, as a “rape genocide apologist”.

It came after she rejected a request by Oldham council for the Home Office to hold a Whitehall-led inquiry into the grooming scandal in the Greater Manchester town.

Ministers fear Musk’s attacks on the government will continue, and that his apparent support for Reform UK could damage Labour’s prospects at the next election.

Musk set up a UK-based company last month, called X.AI London Ltd — after the social media company he owns.

It is viewed as a potential means of Musk making political donations, which he is said to be considering to help Reform, despite a recent apparent rift with Nigel Farage, the party’s leader.

In a shock move over the weekend, Musk distanced himself from Farage.

It came just hours after the opposition politician had defended the world’s richest man for his attacks on PM Sir Keir Starmer and his handling of the grooming gangs scandal.

Billionaire Musk said “the Reform party needs a new leader” and that “Farage doesn’t have what it takes”.

Musk and the Labour Party have been contacted for comment by The Sun.

GROOMING GANG ROW

Meanwhile, Labour MPs for Northern towns blighted by rape gangs voted against a new inquiry into the scandal yesterday.

Sir Keir whipped the MPs for Rochdale, Rotherham and Oldham and hundreds of others to defeat the bid for a new probe - just hours after No10 said the PM as "open minded" to a new investigation. 

In a heated PMQs spat yesterday, Ms Badenoch said: “The Prime Minister called for nine inquiries in the last parliament. Does he not feel that by resisting this one, people will start to worry about a cover-up.”

Her remarks echoed the attacks by Elon Musk who accused Sir Keir of denying an inquiry “because he is hiding terrible things”.

The animated Labour leader hit back at his Tory rival for taking a “short-sighted, misguided, bandwagon-jumping approach”.

He said victims of the rape gangs scandal “want action now, not the delay of a further inquiry”.

Sir Keir warned: “The Jay inquiry, the last national inquiry was seven years which would take us with a further inquiry to 2031, I think action is what's required.”

Ms Badenoch blasted back: “Be a leader, not a lawyer. We know that people were scared to tell the truth because they thought they would be called racist. If we want to stop this from ever happening again, we cannot be afraid.”

She added: “It is very possible to have shorter inquiries, especially if they are covering areas that have not been looked at yet.”

Ms Badenoch plans to table an amendment in the Commons to the Government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

It will call for a specific investigation into failings and cover-ups in about 60 northern towns over Pakistani-heritage rape gangs.