Downing Street Refuses To Retaliate After Elon Musk Calls For Election To Oust Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer and Elon Musk

Downing Street has refused to be drawn into a fresh war of words with Elon Musk after he called for a general election to oust Keir Starmer.

The world’s richest man stepped up his feud with the prime minister in a series of posts on X, the social media platform he owns.

Musk was responding to a post linking to a story on Labour’s plummeting poll ratings six months since Starmer’s landslide election victory.

He said: “A new election should be called...