The report that sparked Musk’s interest earlier this week claimed that Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips had rejected a request from a city council for a government-led inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham, a town near Manchester in the north of England that was one one of the areas where allegations of abuse from grooming gangs were made.
While Musk and his allies claim this is part of a larger government cover-up, Phillips actually wrote in a letter that it was “for Oldham Council alone to decide to commission an inquiry into child sexual exploitation locally, rather than for the government to intervene.” The previous Conservative-led government similarly rejected Oldham’s calls for a government-led inquiry in 2022.
Musk has called on Phillips to be jailed and called her “a rape genocide apologist.” Both Musk and Phillips did not respond to WIRED’s request…
