Elon Musk has been tweeting incessantly for days about a grooming gang scandal that is setting the political weather in Britain, but the origins of how it came onto the radar of the world's richest man can be traced back a decade.

The UK’s Conservative Party tried and failed to force PM Keir Starmer into holding a national inquiry into a scandal surrounding so-called child grooming gangs.

Elon Musk continues to shout misinformation about grooming gangs through his X loudhailer. In 2015, a comprehensive, statutory, Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) was set up, chaired by Professor Alexis Jay,