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Starmer faces final Cabinet and PMQs as Burnham nears Labour leadership finish line – UK politics live

Source: The Guardian World - Published: 15 Jul 2026 11:28

The outgoing Labour leader will have final talks with his senior ministers in No 10 before taking his last PMQsSixteen 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. Continue reading...