Sir Keir Starmer’s efforts to rally an international crackdown on Elon Musk’s social media platform X have suffered a blow after Canada publicly backed away from an outright ban.

The UK government announced new legislation criminalising the creation of nonconsensual AIgenerated intimate images, just days after Elon Musk posted AIgenerated images of Prime Minister Keir Starmer on X.

Speaking to Labour MPs on Monday, Sir Keir Starmer warned X could lose the "right to self regulate". "If X cannot control Grok, we will," he said, adding the government would act quickly in response to the issue. The government also plans to unveil legislation to make it illegal to supply online tools used to create such images.