X owner says people shouldn’t go to UK when ‘they’re releasing convicted pedophiles’, referring to prison early release scheme
Elon Musk has hit back at the UK government after he was not invited to an international investment summit as a result of hison Thursday: “I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted pedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts.”
He was apparently referring to the prison early release scheme, initiated by the Labour government, which has said the system is “has used the platform to suggest that civil war in Britain was “inevitable”, and to criticise Keir Starmer after rioting broke out following the killing of three children in Southport.
Musk’s latest broadside comes after it emerged he is not invited to a global investment summit in Britain on 14 October. The government hopes the event will be a boost for investment in the UK two weeks before the autumn budget. Government sources confirmed Musk was not invited. Musk took centre stage in November last year at a UK summit on AI where the then Conservative prime minister, Rishi Sunak, played the role of a chatshow host and flattered the entrepreneur during a 40-minute in-person conversation.However, Musk’s attitude towards the UK has changed since then as he has shifted increasingly to the right in the US where he has emerged as a supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Musk was responding on Thursday to a tweet by Mario Nawfal, a self-described “founder and investor”, who has emerged as a would-be influencer on X since Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Citing the BBC as a source, Nawful had tweeted: “UK snubs Elon because he criticised oppression of free speech.”by the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, as an opportunity for up to 300 senior business figures hosted by the prime minister.
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