She called on Elon Musk ’s X, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, TikTok, Google and YouTube to “urgently review” material accessed by killer Axel Rudakubana - which she said is still available online. In a joint letter with Technology Secretary Peter Kyle Ms Cooper said the ease with which “such dangerous and illegal” content can be viewed was “unacceptable”.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has called on Elon Musk to remove a harrowing video watched by Axel Rudakabana from X. Rudakabana, who was this week sentenced to 52-years in prison, watched violent footage from an attack on a Sydney bishop in April 2024 before he murdered three girls last July.

The Home Secretary is said not to agree with the findings of the ‘rapid analytical sprint on extremism’ she commissioned following the summer riots.

The Home Secretary has had to disown a report on extremism she herself commissioned - and it's given ammunition to Labour's enemies

Britain's Home Secretary announced there would be a number of new local inquiries into decade-old allegations of child grooming, weeks after Elon Musk accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failings.

The Home Secretary has written to firms including Elon Musk’s X and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta telling them to urgently review content. | ITV National News

The UK's interior minister, Yvette Cooper, announced on Thursday that a budget of nearly 6 million euros would be allocated to fund new local investigations into the scandal that has affected dozens of towns in central and northern England since 2000.

Britain will back new local inquiries into child sexual abuse across the country, the government said on Thursday, after weeks of criticism by U.S. billionaire Elon Musk stirred renewed concern about a decades-old scandal over grooming gangs.

The UK government backs local inquiries into organised child sexual abuse gangs, following controversy sparked by Elon Musk's comments.

Dan Jarvis said a leaked report on expanding the definition ‘does not and will not represent Government policy’.

Labour’s election manifesto included a promise that the party would “not increase taxes on working people” but Rachel Reeves has quietly overseen a £1.1billion tax bombshell that will hit almost everyone. Under her watch, council tax bills are soaring.