Keir Starmer slaps down Elon Musk over ‘civil war’ comment
Coffee House Shots
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🗓️ 6 August 2024
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Elsewhere, Rachel Reeves has been in North America this week attempting to bang the drum for Britain as 'a stable place to do business' … stable all expect for some significant market turmoil. What's the update?
Oscar Edmondson speaks to Katy Balls and Kate Andrews.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:30.0 | So the Prime Minister has clashed with billionaire owner of ex-Elon Musk over comments that Musk made |
| 0:36.0 | claiming that the UK is heading for Civil War. |
| 0:39.2 | Katie you wrote about this on the website. |
| 0:41.6 | Can you take us through it? Yeah, what a difference a year or so makes. I mean, it was November last year when we had Rishi |
| 0:49.3 | Cino actually hosting at Elon Musk with his AI summit. They had that quite cozy fireside chat. |
| 0:55.2 | But the other was not interviewed by a journalist, |
| 0:57.2 | but instead the Prime Minister. |
| 0:59.4 | There was talk of a romance. |
| 1:01.0 | I don't think the new Prime Minister has the same attitude towards |
| 1:04.0 | Elon Musk. Effect really what's happened is in the number 10 lobby briefing the |
| 1:08.5 | Prime Minister's spokesperson was asked about comments that Elon Musk had made on X his social media platform, |
| 1:15.5 | where he had said Civil War is inevitable in response to what we have seen over the past week of so |
| 1:22.2 | in terms of this violent disorder in |
| 1:24.0 | various parts of the UK and this was in response to you know comments on this |
| 1:29.1 | Kistama's folks been made clear that he did not share that sentiment and actually thought it was the wrong thing to say. |
| 1:35.0 | Since then, Eelum Musk has now started just taking to tweeting at labour videos and Kirstama. |
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