A 39-year-old man has been charged with sending malicious communications to Jess Phillips following Elon Musk’s criticism of her response to the grooming gang scandal.

The Labour safeguarding minister branded Elon Musk's claims about her "ridiculous" and said she will not be silenced.

Tesla billionaire and Trump ally also said safeguarding minister ‘deserves to be in prison’ for response to grooming gangs

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Responding for the first time to the erratic tech billionaire, Ms Phillips said Mr Musk "knows absolutely nothing about the subject he's talking about" and she wouldn't make her decisions based on a "

The minister suggested her life had been turned upside down after Mr Musk used his X platform to accuse her of being a ‘rape genocide apologist’.

Jess Phillips has spoken about her fears for her life for the first time since Elon Musk unleashed a torrent of abuse against her over the child grooming scandal. The safeguarding minister found herself at the centre of an international storm when she decided not to agree to a national inquiry into child grooming and rape across towns in the north of England because one had already been conducted.

Jess Phillips has said Elon Musk “knows absolutely nothing” about the grooming gangs after the owner of X attacked her on social media. Speaking to BBC Newsnight, the Home Office minister said her life had been put in danger after Musk branded her a “rape genocide apologist”.

Keir Starmer slammed Elon Musk during a fiery speech in which he laid into the billionaire for his 'attention seeking lies' after he called safeguarding minister Jess Phillips a 'genocide rap apologist'.