SIR Keir Starmer has hit back at Elon Musk over the grooming gangs row, blasting him and far-right agitator Tommy Robinson for “spreading lies and misinformation.”

The PM slammed the richest man in the world and Robinson for “not being interested in justice”.

Facing reporters after an NHS speech, Sir Keir was asked if he was angry about Musk’s criticism of safeguarding minister Jess Phillips.

Defending his record, he said: “Let me start with this: Child sexual exploitation is utterly sickening. Utterly sickening. And for many, many years too many victims have been completely let down. 

“Let down by perverse ideas about community relations or by the idea that institutions must be protected above all else and they have not been listened to and they have not been heard. 

“And when I was chief prosecutor for five years I tackled that head on because I could see what was happening and that is why I reopened cases that had been closed and supposedly finished, I brought the first major prosecution of an Asian grooming gang in the particular case it was in Rochdale but it was the first of its kind, there were many that then followed that format. 

“We changed, or I changed, the whole prosecution approach because I wanted to challenge and did challenge the myths and stereotypes that were stopping those victims being heard.”

He also then appeared to accuse Musk of “spreading lies”, adding: “Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible, they are not interested in victims, they are interested in themselves.

“Those who are cheerleading Tommy Robinson are not interested in justice, they are supporting a man who went to prison for nearly collapsing a grooming case, a gang grooming case.”

He went on: “Those attacking Jess Phillips who I am proud to call a colleague and a friend are not protecting victims. Jess Phillips has done a thousand times more than they have even dreamt about when it comes to protecting victims of sexual abuse throughout her entire career.”