Starmer Leaves Under-16 Social Media Ban to Burnham as He Resigns
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Updated · POLITICO Europe · Jul 15
Starmer Leaves Under-16 Social Media Ban to Burnham as He Resigns
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO Europe · Jul 15
Summary
Keir Starmer used one of his final acts before resigning as prime minister to push an under-16 social media ban, leaving prime-minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham to deliver the policy.
Liz Kendall, Starmer’s tech secretary, updated the plan on Wednesday and filled in some gaps left since last month’s headline announcement.
Big implementation questions still remain, with Burnham inheriting the hardest part: how the ban would actually work in practice.
The handover turns a politically high-profile child-safety pledge into an early test for Burnham’s incoming government.