Senior Labour figures are reportedly privately questioning Britain’s close intelligence sharing relationship with the United States after Elon Musk took aim at Keir Starmer over grooming gangs.

The X owner, who has an unofficial but senior position in the Trump administration, has spent the last week using his platform to launch savage attacks on the UK government.

The slew of messages came after the Government declined to commission an inquiry into sexual exploitation in Oldham, insisting it should be locally-led.

Mr Musk accused the Prime Minister of being ‘complicit’ in crimes and branded Home Office minister Jess Phillips a ‘rape genocide apologist’.

Sir Keir publicly spoke out against Mr Musk yesterday, but the BBC‘s Newsnight last night suggested senior No10 officials were wondering if the UK should distance itself from the Trump administration as long as Musk is a part.

The two countries, along with Canada, Australia and New Zealand, form the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence-sharing network.

However, Tory MP Nick Timothy said anyone thinking this was a good idea were ‘not serious people’.

The X owner, who has an unofficial but senior position in the Trump administration, has spent the last week using his platform to launch savage attacks on the UK government .

Sir Keir publicly spoke out against Mr Musk yesterday, but the BBC ‘s Newsnight last night suggested senior No10 officials were wondering if the UK should distance itself from the Trump administration as long as Musk is a part.

And Defence Secretary John Healey told MPs yesterday: ‘The US is the closest ally of this country, and this country is the closest ally of the US.

‘That has been for case the decades — it has withstood the ups and downs of the political cycle on both sides of the Atlantic — and we as a Government will work closely with the incoming US Administration.’

He had been asked by Labour MP Oliver Ryan whether he had assessed ‘the UK’s exposure of our defence capabilities, given that there may be some changes in the White House?’

Sir Keir is today is scrambling to steady the ship today after brutal clashes with Elon Musk and fury at ‘smearing’ those calling for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.

The PM gathered his Cabinet this morning as ministers consider how to respond to the growing furore.

Sir Keir fueled the backlash after swiping yesterday that politicians who want an overarching probe into the rape of thousands of white girls by gangs of predominantly Pakistani-origin men were ‘amplifying what the far-Right are saying’.

As it tries to quell the row, the government has announced that the law will be changed to make it mandatory for social workers, teachers, police and others working with children to report suspected sexual abuse.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is tabling a Commons amendment designed to force a vote on an inquiry.

However, Professor Alexis Jay, who chaired the previous independent inquiry into Child Sex Abuse, said this morning that ‘people should just get on with’ implementing its recommendations rather than holding another one.