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Prime Minister’s Questions got here again with a bang at present and there was one one that definitely loved it.

Elon Musk, little question tuning in from his lair in a hollowed out volcano, should have been beside himself to see his political agenda being debated within the mom of parliaments.

“Evil” Keir Starmer being verbally duffed up by Kemi Badenoch over the grooming scandal is popcorn-worthy stuff for the world’s richest man.

And the one-man X-ing/tweeting machine was quickly firing off X’s/tweets praising the Tory chief for telling the PM to be a “leader not a lawyer”.

The Tesla boss even acquired name-checked, by Starmer, over his obvious snub to Nigel Farage that he “doesn’t have what it takes” to steer Reform UK.

Farage took it in good spirits however he should have been seething. Reform’s Rupert Lowe, who was Musk’s flavour of the week on Sunday, chuckled.

It’s all about Kemi now.

The opposition chief’s jibe about Sir Keir’s management abilities got here as he tried to step into his previous lawyery footwear throughout indignant clashes within the Commons.

He rebuffed requires a nationwide inquiry into the grooming scandal, saying a brand new probe would solely imply “delay” and even accused the Tory chief of being “short-sighted and misguided” over the problem.

But Kemi had him boxed in and the federal government has seemingly left the door ajar to an inquiry.

The problem has change into a political storm after Musk used his social media platform to launch a barrage of assaults at Sir Keir and Labour safeguarding minister Jess Phillips over the previous few weeks.

Phillips, sitting on the federal government frontbench, appeared much more livid than regular as the 2 leaders traded blows.

Temperatures within the chamber, freezing exterior, simmered.

But the agenda-setter didn’t change because the Lib Dem chief Sir Ed Davey raised the “spectre” of Musk’s potential 100 million greenback donation to Reform UK.

Sir Keir mentioned the Government will have a look at potential reforms to political get together funding.

One suspects that somebody who can change the British political climate with the press of a button will have the ability to discover a approach to give wads of money to his get together of alternative.