Badenoch accuses Starmer of ‘smear tactics’ amid row over Musk’s grooming gang claims – UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch accuses Keir Starmer of using smear tactics’ against her.

She has responded to Starmer in a post on social media including a clip from his Q&A earlier.

Starmer is applying Labour smear tactics from 20 years ago and thinks they will work today . He is a man of the past with no answers for today ’s problems.

French president adds his voice to chorus of European criticism of Elon Musk .

Keir Starmer criticised Tories for not speaking out against Elon Musk’s attacks on Jess Phillips .

Labour MP Diane Abbottsays Starmer might have been better off just ignoring Musk .

John Swinney , Scotland 's first minister, said Musk 's attacks on Phillips were “completely and utterly reprehensible’.

Streeting said Tory response to Musk attack on Phillips had been a mixture of “silent indifference from the more decent Conservatives and, worse still, active complicity from other Conservatives ” Said the “decent Conservative party” that used to operate in the country should be speaking up.

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