{"id":136719,"date":"2025-09-14T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136719\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:40:07","slug":"musk-calls-for-new-uk-government-at-far-right-rally-in-london-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136719\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk calls for new UK government at far-right rally in London \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musk\u2019s comments are the latest in a war of words with the British government<\/a>. He has been a vocal critic of the U.K.\u2019s Online Safety Act, which he says threatens free speech, and has attacked Downing Street\u2019s handling of grooming gangs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really think that there\u2019s got to be a change of government in Britain<\/a>,\u201d Musk said Saturday. \u201cWe don\u2019t have another four years, or whenever the next election is \u2014 it\u2019s too long. There\u2019s got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Musk has talked about violence in Britain. Last year, he said \u201ccivil war is inevitable\u201d after riots broke<\/a> out over claims from far-right groups that a Muslim asylum seeker was responsible for the stabbing of three children. The disinformation campaign fueled anger against immigrants living in Britain.<\/p>\n

Musk has also turned on U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, accusing him of \u201ctwo-tier policing\u201d that punished right-wing protesters more than those from the left. The claim has been debunked but is still used by conspiracy theorists and populist politicians, such as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n

The attacks against Starmer\u2019s government continued during Saturday\u2019s appearance<\/a> at the \u201cunite the kingdom\u201d rally, which drew more than 110,000 people<\/a> onto London\u2019s streets. The Guardian<\/a> described the rally as the largest nationalist event in decades.<\/p>\n

U.K. Business Secretary Peter Kyle\u00a0criticized Musk\u2019s comments to the rally. \u201cI thought that they were slightly incomprehensible comments that were totally inappropriate,\u201d Kyle told the BBC<\/a> Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Some protesters threw bottles and other projectiles at police and 25 people were arrested<\/a>, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s comments are the latest in a war of words with the British government. He has been a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[815,625,32022,461,995,59,57,58,420,18584,50,633,18904,423,54009,470,471,7862,56,54,55,636],"class_list":["post-136719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-asylum","tag-british-politics","tag-disinformation","tag-elections","tag-elon-musk","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-keir-starmer","tag-law-enforcement","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-online-safety","tag-parliament","tag-policing","tag-rights","tag-safety","tag-tommy-robinson","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}