even this morning, i say this morning uk time, i don't think it is morning where elon musk is, he has been firing off a post after post, post on twitteru seem to have discovered gordon brown this morning, the former uk prime minister, he has been coming in for some stick, 14 years after he left office, 15 years now. so it is a total fascination that elon musk clearly has with uk politics. but zeroing in specifically on the grooming gangs scandal of some years ago, and insisting that there should be various acts of condemnation for leaders and politicians, and other officials from back then, but also calling for a new inquiry. yesterday, just weeks after elon musk had been openly floating the idea that he might donate to the reform party, led by nigel farage, yesterday he declared that he was not cut out to be the leader of reform. that is unquestionably having an impact in the uk. people are talking about the grooming gangs issue, in a way that they simply would not be if the world's richest man had not been posting about it on the social media site that he owns. the broader question of why elon musk, an incoming member of donald trum

twitter, he's doing with x. and he's dangerous. as you say, germany, the uk, canada, he is pushing the far right in each of those countries. in the u.s. he's already done it. every day he seems to become more and more extreme. just today he was questioning whether islamophobia even exists. he's taking every far right red pillbox and he's not just some random troll. he's not tommy robinson. he's actually a billionaire who can sway elections and has the ear of the president of the united states from january 20th 2025. >> one might say he's his boss, but he's donald trump's los and that trump's of her boss, vladimir putin, these two, they do have local designs. ed lucas had a great point in the financial times. musk speaking for trump, in which case the west is as good as dead, or is he testing the waters that would give western capital scope to exploit differences between trump and musk? the answer is probably the two but at the moment trump is either talking tough to make it look like he's the real boss by saying he's going to invade panama and greenland and c

elon musk�*s intervention in uk politics isn't happening in isolation. when musk bought twitterought the power to exert influence. in the us election, musk used twitter — now rebranded x — to amplify his support for donald trump. after trump's victory, musk was ever—present. the power he derived from technology had been translated into huge political power. musk will co—lead a new department of government efficiency. and he pronounced — "this won't be business as usual. this is going to be a revolution." more broadly — the revolution that musk is seeking is not contained to the us. in brazil, he initially defied a court orderfor x to do more to restrict misinformation. he said the judge was "trying to destroy democracy." x would later meet all of the court's demands. in germany, there's an election next month — with the far right afd party in contention. musk has posted "only the afd can save germany." and has also written that the party "resonates with many germans who feel their concerns are ignored by the establishment." now, musk has turned to the uk — particulary the issue

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uk. and to that extent, elon musk's latest interventions on twitter have derailed some of those efforts. and i think, um, have undermined nigel farage sort of move forward in that regard. >> you know, money buys influence no matter where you are. must use his billions or 260 million, actually, to help elect donald trump. can he actually do the same in the uk if he decided to? >> well, i think the question is still open there. i mean, it's clear that the uk politically is a deeply fragmented system and that the sort of post-second world war labor party, conservative party division has broken down to, to a certain extent. so there is room for a kind of a new party to come in. it's ambiguous, though, because in many ways, the landslide victory of the labor party in the recent election was a rejection of conservative party policies, especially the sort of far right fringe, the brexit, a fringe of that party. having said that, i think that ultimately the real litmus test here will be with trump in power and the impact of economic policies and the ways in which they will impact the uk. and i t

i mean, who put a poll just on twitter x this morning a few hours ago saying, should the united states liberate the brits from the uk. how do we respond precisely to the rule of dawn, to the unpredictability from by far the most powerful country in the world that is going to act much more unilaterally on the global stage in 2025. >> all right. >> so let's talk about ian. a couple of quick opportunities here. possibility of abraham accords moving forward. the saudis and israel probably striking a deal early on in the trump presidency. i'm curious what your take is on the opportunities in syria. iran weaker than any at any point since 1979. possibility of a peace deal or at least a cease fire between russia and ukraine, especially with ukraine having some success over the past week in their attacks. what are the opportunities that you see? reasons for hope. >> as i said, when the united states is saying you listen to us or else there is a willingness of a lot of countries to pay attention. and that's not just american allies, it's also adversaries. so do i think there is a much greater likelihood of a cease fire betwe

. >> he's spending an enormous amount of time on twitter or x, you know, and now he's working on what's going on in the ukher businesses and i just wonder at some point is there enough time in the day? the accordion of his life to actually be able to do all of this? >> as you know i've known elon for a long time. >> long time. >> people have bet him and i tell people don't ever bet against him. he's always had a lot of businesses and focuses on a few at a time while he gets the other running. the thing i have always known about elon, we have dealt in politics for a long time, he doesn't really drive on am i republican or democrat, he is an independent but he's really a constitutionalist. the thing that drives him the most is the first amendment. it is what drives him. what he has found since he bought twitter, he watched what government had done to people. it was a fundamental change in who he was. i was to the right of him and then after he bought twitter he came to see me showing me things that i didn't even know government had done and what he truly believes in this election he would say to me if we lo

individual in the world very aligned with him who put a poll on twitter/x this morning saying, should the united states liberate the brits from the ukw already -- trump isn't president yet, there are crisis conversations happening in european capital, how do we respond to the rule of don, unpredictability, from the most powerful country in the world that is going to act much more unilaterally on the globe stage in 2025. >> let's talk about a couple of quick opportunities here, a possibility of abraham accords moving forward, the saudis and israel probably striking a deal early in the trump presidency. i'm curious what your take is on the opportunities in syria. iran weaker than at any point since 1979. possibility of at least a cease-fire between russia and ukraine, especially with ukraine having some success over the past week in their attacks. what are the opportunities that you see, reasons for hope? >> as i said, when the united states is saying, you listen to us or else, there is a willingness of a lot of countries to pay attention. and that's not just american allies. it's also adversaries. so do i think there is a much greate

obviously, the home secretary is now seeking to get elon musk to agree to take it offline in in twitter uk. >> but if she's already, if they were able in australia to get that stuff taken down really quickly, why is it not being taken down here already? >> well, because it's at the discretion of the platform. i mean, in theory, i think governments can block. >> of course. >> of course. >> they can. they can. the government could block facebook, let's say. but they're not going to do that. they just want this video taken down. and that is the mercy of the tech bros. >> but why don't they? in an extreme example, this country is still appalled and outraged by what that boy did to those little girls. they're outraged that he hasn't got a whole life sentence and they're outraged. that's because keir starmer says, gotta be bound by a un convention on courts. >> yeah, lawyer. >> yeah, lawyer. >> not a leader, as i keep saying about him. because if he did act like a leader, he would change the law so he could be given a whole life sentence. and now i think they just need drastic action. >> yeah. >

and she announced the move on x, formerly twitter, as part of her five point plan to tackle child abuse in the ukd let's cross straight now to gb. news, national reporter and investigations editor, charlie peters. charlie an incredible development. a significant development. a significant development. let's not forget back in 2017, it was sarah champion who wrote that article for the sun newspaper. quote britain has a problem with british pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls. for her sins, she was forced to resign as a minister. she was the secretary of state for women and equalities 100 cross—party mps led by the labour mp naz shah, wrote to the sun demanding her head and they got it. last wednesday she voted against this vote. now she's had a 1507 00:09:39,696 -->