On Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Streeting mentioned: “It’s a disgraceful smear of an important lady who has spent her life supporting victims of the form of violence that Elon Musk and others say that they are towards.
“It is all very simple to take a seat there and hearth off one thing in haste and click on ship when individuals like Keir Starmer and Jess Phillips have executed the arduous yards of truly locking up spouse beaters, rapists and paedophiles.”
Musk’s newest intervention got here after Phillips instructed Oldham Council in October to launch its personal native inquiry into historic youngster sexual abuse within the city, just like inquiries arrange in Rochdale and Telford.
Musk mentioned that she “deserves to be in jail” for her response.
The choice was additionally criticised by a number of senior Tories, regardless of the earlier Conservative authorities turning down an analogous request in 2022.
Musk, a key adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump, additionally steered Sir Keir had did not correctly prosecute rape gangs whereas director of public prosecutions (DPP), and has repeatedly retweeted Reform UK and Conservative MPs calling for a nationwide inquiry.
Streeting’s feedback got here after Reform UK chief Nigel Farage defended Musk after he attacked the UK authorities’s response to grooming gangs.
Talking on the identical programme, Farage mentioned Musk had used “very robust phrases” however that “free speech was again” on X underneath his possession.
He mentioned the general public is “completely proper to be” indignant about grooming gangs and to ask why there had not been a full public inquiry.
Streeting challenged Musk to “roll up his sleeves” and assist deal with violence towards girls on on-line platforms.
“On-line platforms have gotten a job to play in conserving individuals protected on-line, serving to regulation enforcement on perpetrators of violence towards girls and individuals who wish to groom children on-line.”
The well being secretary mentioned Sir Keir and Phillips each had “information that their critics cannot even start to the touch”.
Whereas director of public prosecutions, Sir Keir launched a particular prosecutor for youngster abuse and sexual exploitation to supervise convictions towards grooming gangs.
Starmer additionally modified the Crown Prosecution Service steering to encourage police to analyze suspects in advanced sexual abuse circumstances and courtroom reforms aimed toward making the method much less traumatic for victims.
“As director of prosecutions, Keir Starmer opened up historic circumstances, going after individuals who thought they’d received away with it,” Streeting mentioned.
“As for Jess Phillips, the work that she has executed in her skilled life outdoors politics, supporting victims of violence towards girls and ladies, she has helped help them to get their day in in courtroom and lock up their abusers” he added.