Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced what he described as a “full ban” on children using social media, going beyond limits imposed by Australia last year to create one of the strictest online crackdowns in the democratic world.
“It will make our children safer. It will make our children happier, it will give them more time, more security, more freedom to grow up, more opportunity,” Starmer said in a press briefing on Monday morning. In a hint he proceeded with one eye on his own threatened legacy, he added: “That, at the end of the day, is what this government ...