The outgoing Labour leader will have final talks with his senior ministers in No 10 before taking his last PMQs
Sixteen and 17-year-olds are to be encouraged to observe a midnight social media curfew, in the latest stage of Labour’s bid “to protect the next generation” from online harms, including poor sleep caused by night-time scrolling.
As Robert Booth explains in his story on this, critics have argued that a voluntary curfew of this kind, imposed via a default setting that can easily be switched off, is of little use.
I wouldn’t belittle that because when we have seen evidence on this sort of stuff. In October, for example, some platforms introduced these defaults of this sort – 90%-plus teenagers said to us that they’ve maintained those defaults as well.
And so the evidence base is clear, the motivation is very clear and I wouldn’t do the disservice to teenagers of saying they’re all going to switch it off.
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