Starmer accuses Musk of ‘trying to whip up division’ in UK following Henry Nowak murder

 Sir Keir Starmer has accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of “trying to whip up division” in the UK, following the murder of Henry Nowak.

Speaking during a visit to Yorkshire, the prime minister said: “We… need to assert who we are as a country because Musk has been interfering in our politics in the last few days, trying to whip up division. 

“That is not who we are in Britain.

“We are reasonable, tolerant people. When we have a terrible case like Henry’s case, Henry Nowak, we react calmly as his family has done.”

Starmer backs MP suing Musk’s AI bot

His comments follow Labour MP Jess Asato saying she is suing Musk’s xAI, saying the Grok chatbot was used to create fake images of her in a bikini.

“Grok created deepfake pornography and sexualised content which harmed thousands of women and children,” ​the MP for Lowestoft said in a statement.

“Its ability is not an accident, nor misuse, it is a design choice ​by its creators. In launching this case, I am pursuing accountability for those choices.”

She claims that Grok users created and shared fake images depicting her in a bikini, as well as a video showing her “being chloroformed and prepared ⁠for a sexual assault”, after she criticised the chatbot in January.

Asato said she filed a claim at the High Court yesterday in a bid to seek accountability for the design choices that allowed Grok to create such images.

Starmer has also backed Asato’s case against Musk, saying that she is “absolutely right” as “disgusting images were created, in her particular case by Grok”.

The PM added: “I am really pleased that we took Grok on a few months ago, because that is the fight we should be in, taking on some of these platforms providers [and] some of these disgusting images, really disgusting. We won that.

“I am 100% behind the action that she has taken.”