Jess Phillips has spoken about her fears for her life for the first time since Elon Musk unleashed a torrent of abuse against her over the child grooming scandal.

The Labour safeguarding minister branded Elon Musk's claims about her "ridiculous" and said she will not be silenced.

Tesla billionaire and Trump ally also said safeguarding minister ‘deserves to be in prison’ for response to grooming gangs

Responding for the first time to the erratic tech billionaire, Ms Phillips said Mr Musk "knows absolutely nothing about the subject he's talking about" and she wouldn't make her decisions based on a "

A 39-year-old man has been charged with sending malicious communications to Jess Phillips following Elon Musk’s criticism of her response to the grooming gang scandal.

The revelation comes just hours after Sir Keir Starmer came out fighting on behalf of Ms Phillips saying the ‘poison of the far right’ had led to serious threats to the safeguarding minister

Keir Starmer said a 'line has been crossed' after Elon Musk launched fierce attacks against safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, with the PM warning that she had faced threats

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Keir Starmer slammed Elon Musk during a fiery speech in which he laid into the billionaire for his 'attention seeking lies' after he called safeguarding minister Jess Phillips a 'genocide rap apologist'.