Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman,

and this is the Sunday Roundup. Elon Musk has spent this week calling for the release of far-right figure

Tommy Robinson and launching attacks at British politicians over a failure to investigate gangs

who grinned and raped young girls over a period of years in the north of England.

Musk said Kirstama, who was director of public prosecutions when the scandal first came to

light, was complicit in the rape of Britain,

and also said safeguarding minister Jess Phillips should be in jail.

On the BBC this morning, Health Secretary was streeting,

said Musk's attack was a disgraceful smear.

Given how far Elon Musk has been going in his attacks on Kirstarmer, in this post, for

example, accusing the Prime Minister of being complicit in what he calls the rape of Britain. This is not

mild criticism. Can you work with this man, as you suggested, you still could a few days ago?

Well, actually, what I was saying the other day is that if he wants to roll his sleeves up and actually do something about tackling violence against women and girls, then online platforms, whether X or any of the other platforms, have got a role to play in keeping people safe online, helping law enforcement clamp down on perpetrators of violence against women and girls and people who want to groom kids online.

Kirstarmer and Jess Phillips, by the way, who've both been on the receiving end of completely

ill-judged and ill-founded criticism, are people who have done in their professional lives

more than most people ever do to lock up paedophiles, rapists, wife beaters and every other kind of scumbag in our society.

As Director of Prosecutions, Kirstama opened up historic cases going after people who thought they'd gotten away with it.

He put in place specialist prosecutors to make sure that we could build the evidence to put rapists behind bars.

And as for Jess, the work that she has done in her professional life outside politics,

supporting victims of violence against women and of girls, has helped to support them to get

their day in court and to lock up their abusers.

So the fact they're now prime minister and victims minister means they can now do in politics what they lock up their abusers. So the fact they're now Prime Minister and

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