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The failure on grooming gangs that has suddenly received a new wave of attention isn’t a failure of multiculturalism; it is a failure to tackle an epidemic of violence against women and girls, write JESS BARNARD and BEN LIAO
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SINCE the turn of the year, Elon Musk, the far-right billionaire and richest man in the world, has been using his social media platform X, to successfully drive the political and news agenda of Britain.
His interventions have now turned to child sexual exploitation and grooming gangs, denouncing Prime Minister Keir Starmer as being responsible for “the rape of Britain,” as well as branding Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips a “rape genocide apologist.”
As a result, his highly organised far-right network has dived into a frenzy, with the media and Reform MPs into parroting his attacks. The Labour Party leadership has been blindsided by Musk’s entrance into our politics, having spent the past five years paranoid about the threat of the left, and leaving the door open to the far right.
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