Keir Starmer criticizes Conservative party for not condemning Elon Musk's controversial tweet about Jess Phillips. Nigel Farage also defends Musk's right to free speech despite the inflammatory language.
Yesterday, in his lengthy attack on Elon Musk and the Conservative party for what they have said about the child abuse scandal, Keir Starmer focused on one point in particular: the Conservative party’s refusal to condemn Musk for saying that Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, was a “rape genocide apologist”. Musk’s tweet saying this has now had almost 43m views and many MPs believe a comment this extreme could amount to an incitement to violence.
Starmer said that a line had been crossed, and that decent politicians would condemn this unequivocally. In his LBC phone-in Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, was asked if he would condemn Musk for what he said. He refused, replying: If he was inciting violence, then that would be going beyond the line at which free speech is acceptable. Nick Ferrari, the presenter, said that using language like “rape genocide apologist’ was very close to this point. Farage replied: It’s very, very strong language, and it offends many, but then free
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