A health minister has given her backing to Sir Keir Starmer, as Elon Musk hit out at the prime minister and his government over its response to grooming gangs in the UK. Karin Smyth says Starmer brought perpetrators to "these evil crimes" to justice". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The Prime Minister is someone who does support his ministers very, very strongly.
00:04He's someone who personally led the bringing these perpetrators of these evil crimes to
00:10justice, as has his minister, my colleague Jess Phillips, in her professional life worked
00:15to support victims.
00:17They are the people that are right to lead the work to give those victims justice and
00:21make sure perpetrators are brought to justice.
00:25That's the work we're getting on with.
00:26The people that matter here are the victims of these heinous crimes and those are the
00:30people that we are supporting.
00:32The Prime Minister is somebody who's absolutely focused on the delivery of his manifesto commitment
00:38to the British public.
00:40In his professional life, he was committed to victims.
00:42In his life now as the Prime Minister, he's committed to getting this country back on
00:46track.
00:47The missions that we set ourselves, the very clear ambitions we set ourselves for the country
00:51and the very strong message the country gave us back in July, they want us to get on with
00:55that delivery.
00:56That's what today is about.
00:57That's what the Prime Minister is about.