Britain's Home Secretary announced there would be a number of new local inquiries into decade-old allegations of child grooming, weeks after Elon Musk accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failings.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has called on Elon Musk to remove a harrowing video watched by Axel Rudakabana from X. Rudakabana, who was this week sentenced to 52-years in prison, watched violent footage from an attack on a Sydney bishop in April 2024 before he murdered three girls last July.

The UK's interior minister, Yvette Cooper, announced on Thursday that a budget of nearly 6 million euros would be allocated to fund new local investigations into the scandal that has affected dozens of towns in central and northern England since 2000.

The Home Secretary has written to firms including Elon Musk’s X and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta telling them to urgently review content. | ITV National News

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Britain will back new local inquiries into child sexual abuse across the country, the government said on Thursday, after weeks of criticism by U.S. billionaire Elon Musk stirred renewed concern about a decades-old scandal over grooming gangs.

Lisa Nandy has said she "utterly refutes" claims Elon Musk's intervention on UK grooming gangs ... Starmer talks on new pact to 'protect national security' On Thursday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced a plan for government-backed local grooming ...

In a statement to lawmakers, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the government has also ... has risen up the political agenda in the U.K. after Musk recently took to his X platform highlighting ...

She called on Elon Musk ’s X, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, TikTok, Google and YouTube to “urgently review” material accessed by killer Axel Rudakubana - which she said is still available online. In a joint letter with Technology Secretary Peter Kyle Ms Cooper said the ease with which “such dangerous and illegal” content can be viewed was “unacceptable”.

Home Secretary warns that other attacks could be inspired by material that Axel Rudakubana is known to have accessed online