The world's richest person has again waded into UK politics with controversial posts about child abuse by gangs.

American billionaire Elon Musk, a close ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, has criticised UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and called for new elections in the UK. Source: Musk on X (formerly Twitter),

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk called for fresh UK elections in the latest sign of how Donald Trump’s incoming US administration could be a thorn in the side of Keir Starmer’s government.

Elon Musk has backed the AfD in Germany and Nigel Farage's Reform UK in Britain, and praised Italy's right-wing prime minister, Giorgia Meloni.

Elon Musk has continued his criticism of the UK government, calling on the King to step in and dissolve parliament after Labour rejected a call for a national inquiry into child grooming. The tech billionaire triggered an explosive row on Thursday over Sir Keir Starmer ’s handling of historic child abuse in Oldham after he suggested the prime minister had failed to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions.

A senior British government minister, Jess Phillips, on Friday berated Elon Musk’s latest intervention in the country’s politics, saying it was misjudged and certainly misinformed. Musk had earlier alleged that Prime Minister Keir Starmer failed to bring rape gangs to justice when he was Director of Public Prosecutions.