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Ignore Musk, ignore the critics – you’ll feel the benefit of Labour’s policies in your pocket before long

Despite the doom-mongers, the outlook for the economy, the NHS and vital services is good. Coming months should bear that out, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

New year, new Keir: if only politicians would resolve to keep quiet in January

Starmer promotes his NHS plans in Surrey while Kemi Badenoch takes to X in response to Elon Musk

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - I'm a court reporter who sat through horrific grooming gang trials – this is why I'm against a new inquiry

Public inquiries make for great spectacles these days – televised grillings of politicians, officials and experts being called to account for the sins of the past. The modern day equivalent of the stocks.

Evening Standard

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PM rows with Musk amid calls for national grooming inquiry

Elon Musk continued his criticism of Sir Keir Starmer as the Prime Minister accused the billionaire of ‘spreading lies and misinformation’.

Evening Standard

Badenoch defends Jenrick’s remarks about ‘people from alien cultures’

Shadow justice secretary’s comments about British Pakistanis were condemned by former race adviser

The Guardian - UK

Badenoch unlikely to apologise in Reform numbers row, suggests shadow minister

It comes after Nigel Farage declared the Tory leader’s North West Essex seat will be target area for his party at the next election.

The Independent UK

Voices: Never mind Badenoch and Farage – Starmer’s real task is dealing with Trump and Musk

COMMENT: It’s not just Starmer’s premiership at stake here. If the president-elect and his billionaire pal become a bigger threat than they already are, UK democracy may also be at their mercy, writes John Rentoul

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Farage calls out Badenoch directly on Reform UK membership at conference

On Boxing Day, Ms Badenoch wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Reform UK’s online membership ticker was ‘a fake, coded to tick up automatically’.

Evening Standard

Why the latest defection to Reform could trigger a wave of Tories switching to Farage’s party

News analysis: The defection of Boris Johnson ally Marco Longhi to Reform UK represents something much bigger than the actions of an unhappy former MP

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage ‘very pleased’ Elon Musk backs Reform UK, calling him a ‘hero’

Speaking at party conference, its leader calls reports of tech mogul’s potential $100m donation ‘somewhat overexaggerated’

The Guardian - UK

Will there be a new grooming gangs inquiry and what did the previous one find?

Labour government facing pressure over its response to grooming gangs

The Independent UK

Former Conservative MP Marco Longhi defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party

Ex-MP attacks Tories saying the party of Churchill and Thatcher ‘has transformed into something unrecognisable’ in another blow to new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch weeks after former minister Andrea Jenkyns crossed the floor

The Independent UK

Trolling the UK: the issues enraging Elon Musk, world’s richest ‘pub bore’

Unprompted outbursts on X suggest the Tesla boss is hellbent on making life awkward for Keir Starmer

The Guardian - UK

Why are Elon Musk and Kemi Badenoch calling for a grooming scandal inquiry and why is Labour rejecting it?

The background to the inquiries that have been done and why the Home Office Minister has refused calls for a fresh investigation into historic child sexual abuse

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OPINION - Why Kemi Badenoch's showboating on grooming gangs rings hollow

What unites the right like nothing else? Grooming gangs. And the Conservatives have kicked off 2025 by placing it front and centre. “The time is long overdue for a full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal…No one in authority has joined the dots. 2025 must be the year that…

Evening Standard

Elon Musk grooming attacks ‘misjudged and misinformed’, Wes Streeting says

The Health Secretary offered an olive branch to tech billionaire Mr Musk, urging him to work with the UK Government to tackle online child abuse.

Evening Standard

Ministers hit back at Elon Musk as tech billionaire steps up attack on Keir Starmer over grooming gangs

Health minister Andrew Gwynne said the Tesla tycoon should focus on US politics as row over inquiry intensifies

The National (Scotland)

Elon Musk calls on King to dissolve Parliament in latest attack on UK Government

ELON Musk has continued his criticism of the Government, calling on the King to step in and dissolve Parliament...

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The Guardian - UK

Badenoch’s department wrote to Treasury after Dyson lobbying over potential tax break

Business department raised issue of patent box benefit after meeting that took place last June, documents show

Evening Standard

Elon Musk calls on King to dissolve Parliament over grooming gangs

The tech billionaire has continued his social media criticism of Sir Keir Starmer for the Government’s handling of the UK’s ‘rape gangs scandal’.

Evening Standard

What the papers say – January 3

Here are the major stories making headlines this Friday.

Evening Standard

Musk attacks Starmer as Badenoch calls for grooming gangs inquiry

Tesla boss Elon Musk issued a series of attacks on Sir Keir Starmer as the Tories called for a national inquiry into grooming gangs

The Independent UK

Tories demand inquiry into grooming gangs scandal as Elon Musk attacks Starmer

Billionaire’s latest criticism of PM prompts Kemi Badenoch to call for a ‘long overdue’ inquiry into Oldham rape gangs – but her remarks are condemned by Nigel Farage

The Independent UK

Could Reform shock politics with a high-profile Tory defector?

ANALYSIS: Boris Johnson has appeared on a wishlist of disaffected Tories sought by Reform UK. Wishful thinking, writes David Maddox, but it underlines the scale of ambition of a party that wants to win a general election in 2029

Evening Standard

Badenoch calls for inquiry into ‘rape gang scandal’ as Oldham probe denied

The Conservative Party leader made the call in a post on X and argued that a public inquiry into organised grooming gangs is ‘long overdue’.

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