British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has publicly called out Elon Musk, demanding that the billionaire stop interfering in UK politics after the tech mogul used his social media platform X to inflame tensions over a deeply troubling police incident, according to The Nation.
At the centre of the storm is the death of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who was handcuffed by officers as he lay dying from stab wounds ignored, it seems, because his killer had falsely accused him of a racist attack. The killer, a Sikh man, was sentenced Monday. Video footage released after the verdict showed police dismissing the pleas of a dying innocent man, triggering widespread outrage across the country.
Musk waded in quickly. He posted on X suggesting British police are biased against white people and amplified other users’ criticism of how the case was handled. “The West has created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of ‘racism’ is the gravest offense,” he wrote words that poured fuel on an already burning debate.
Starmer condemned both the violence that erupted at protests and Musk’s online intervention. “Musk again has been interfering in our politics, trying to whip up division. That is not who we are in Britain,” the Prime Minister said firmly.
Nowak’s grieving family, who met privately with Starmer, called their son’s treatment “inhumane and degrading” but urged the public not to use his death to spread hatred.
This is not Musk’s first clash with British politics. He has previously attacked Starmer over historical failures to prosecute grooming gangs, and faces a lawsuit from a Labour lawmaker over AI-generated fake images of her on his Grok platform.
The battle between the world’s richest man and a sitting prime minister is far from over.
