The world's richest person, Elon Musk, has hit back after not being invited to the UK government's International Investment Summit. He was not invited due to his social media posts during last month’s riots, the BBC understands.

Elon Musk hit back at Britain on Thursday after reports that he had not been invited to the country's upcoming investment summit, alleging the government was releasing convicted paedophiles while imprisoning people over social media posts.

I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted pedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts,” said tech billionaire.

The billionaire has not been invited to the Government’s upcoming summit to drum up international investment after his posts online during the riots.

Musk hit back at the UK’s Labour government after being left off the invite list for the country’s upcoming International Investment Summit over past tweets.

Elon Musk has not been invited to the UK government's international investment summit because of his social media posts during August's riots.

Elon Musk won’t be invited to the annual U.K. investment summit that he played a starring role in last year over comments he made about riots over the summer, according to a published report.

It is understood that Musk wasn't added to the list after he weighed into race riots in the U.K. over the summer.