Starmer confirms social media ban for under-16s, saying this is a ‘big moment for our country’

Prime minister defends going for full ban, saying social media is making children unhappy and unsafe

Starmer acknowledges some teenagers will get round these restrictons. But that does not make the rules pointless, he says.

Will it mean that no child ever looks at social media again? No.

But look, this might shock you, but it doesn’t shock parents of teenagers; they get around other laws to.

Some technology companies want us to think that social media is unchangeable, part of an almost natural order.

But we have to resist that kind of learned helplessness. We have agency, we can change it, and we will.

Starmer confirms social media ban for under-16s, saying this is a ‘big moment for our country’ – UK politics live