Starmer Urged To Block Tesla From Government Contracts Over Elon Musk's Far-Right Rally Rant

Elon Musk told a far-right rally in London that "violence is coming" to the UK.Ministers should block Tesla from receiving any government contracts over Elon Musk’s warning that “violence is coming” to the UK, according to the Lib Dems.Ed Davey, the party’s leader, said Britain’s political leaders “should respond” to the tech billionaire’s remarks, which he made to the far-right ‘Unite The Kingdom’ rally in London on Saturday.Musk also called for a “dissolution of parliament” and fresh elections to kick out Labour.He told the crowd that they will have to “fight back or die” if they want to defend their country.“Violence is going to come to you,” he said. “You will have no choice. You are in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die. That’s the truth.”The Metropolitan Police later revealed that 26 officers had been injured in clashes with protesters, four of them seriously.Davey has written to Keir Starmer accusing Musk of a “reckless and dangerous assault” on British values and urging the PM to condemn him.He said: “We must make clear that no individual, however wealthy or powerful, can get away with using their platform to inflame tensions and incite violence.”On Radio 4′s Today programme on Monday, Davey said: “This is a man who said that civil war in the UK is inevitable. He’s called for Americans to overturn the ‘tyrannical government in the UK’. He doesn’t use language sensibly, he’s deeply irresponsible, deeply dangerous.“Liberal Democrats and myself have called out Elon Musk, I think it’s time that all major political party leaders call him out. This is not acceptable language. He is interfering in our politics, and when the world’s second wealthiest man does that I think we should respond.”A Lib Dem source told HuffPost UK that the government should target Musk’s firm, Tesla.“We need to hit him in the pocket where it hurts,” the source said.Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has written to other party leaders asking them to join him in condemning Elon Musk's comments at Saturday's ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally.Equalities minister Baroness Smith tells #R4Today the tech billionaire's words were 'wrong and dangerous'.— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) September 15, 2025Meanwhile, women and equalities minister Baroness Smith became the first government figure to directly criticise Musk.She told the Today programme: “Those words were wrong at they were dangerous. We are a country that believes in the right to protest and the right to free speech, but we’re also a country that recognises and celebrates our diversity. That is actually what our flag is about.”She added: “For Elon Musk to talk about violence in our political system, when MPs have been killed in this country as part of our democratic system is wholly unacceptable. That’s not the way that we behave in this country and that’s not what the basis of our democracy is.”Related...Elon Musk Slammed After Telling Far-Right Rally 'Violence Is Coming' To UKLiz Truss And Elon Musk Stoke Anti-Asylum Sentiment With Misleading Clip Of Labour MinisterElon Musk Re-Ignites Farage Feud With Attack On His Mass Deportation Plan

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