Billionaire Elon Musk’s posts accusing United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer of complicity in a decades-old scandal over child grooming gangs could damage the relationship between the United States and its closest ally, political watchers predicted Tuesday. 

“There is absolute horror at the highest levels of government at the incendiary language we have seen from Elon Musk,” said Nicholas Watt, political editor at the BBC’s Newsnight.