Thu, 4 June 2026 at 4:15 pm UTC 4 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keir Starmer hits out at Elon Musk for ‘trying to whip up division’ in UK over Henry Nowak’s murder Sir Keir Starmer has accused Elon Musk of trying to “whip up division” in the UK over Henry Nowak’s murder, after the tech billionaire publicly commented on the case several times. The X owner has posted numerous times on his platform about the police response to the stabbing of the teenager in Southampton last year, criticising “how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments”. The prime minister has now accused Musk of “interfering” in UK politics, and said Britain needs to “assert who we are” as “reasonable, tolerant people”. The X-owner has posted numerous times on his platform about the police response to the stabbing of the teenager in Southampton last year (Reuters) “We need to also assert who we are as a country, because Musk, again, has been interfering in our politics in the last few days, trying to whip up division, that is not who we are in Britain,” he said. Advertisement