Starmer says he hopes social media ban for under-16s will come into force next spring – UK politics live

Starmer is now taking questions. Q: When will this start? Starmer says the government can move quickly. double quotation mark We took powers, earlier this year to make sure we could move at speed. I was very conscious that with the Online Safety Act it took the last government eight years from sort of identifying the beginnings of the problem to actually passing legislation, and [I] was determined that will not happen in this case. He says legislation already passed gives ministers the powers to act using secondary legislation. He says: double quotation mark We hope to pass regulation before Christmas, and therefore to bring the ban into force in the early part of next year, probably about springtime, so we can move a real pace here.