Elon Musk is ramping up pressure on the United Kingdom to launch a national inquiry into the scandal of grooming gangs abusing children throughout the U.K.

Thousands of young girls were groomed and raped by groups of mostly Pakistani men across England from the late 1990s through 2014.

Nigel Farage has launched a defense of Elon Musk’s incendiary social media attacks on Keir Starmer, claiming that “free speech is back” under the Tesla tycoon’s ownership of X. The Reform UK leader said that “tough things get said” in public life after Mr Musk described safeguarding minister Jess Phillips as a “rape genocide apologist” who should be in jail.