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Athena Stavrou, Political Reporter
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Athena Stavrou, Political Reporter
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Starmer hands tech firms ultimatum |
Sir Keir Starmer has handed tech giants a three-month ultimatum to make it impossible for young people to take, share or view sexually explicit images in his latest push to improve online safety.
Firms such as Apple and Google have been told they must activate tech that detects and block nude images on devices by September – or face legislation forcing them to do so.
In a speech at London Tech Week, Sir Keir declared that “standing by is not an option”, adding that “the pace of change cannot be an excuse for harm”.
But the prime minister has been urged to go “much further” on the measures, as he was criticised by some political opponents who called his delay in introducing the ban “desperately sad”.
Former safeguarding minister Jess Phillips – who previously claimed Sir Keir had refused to introduce such a law when she resigned from government – welcomed the announcement, saying the harm she had seen is “unimaginable to most”.
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As a new two-part BBC documentary marking a decade since the disastrous EU referendum makes clear, the two main party leaders were as pivotal as Nigel Farage in scuttling the Remain campaign, says Donald Macintyre
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Tony Blair may have criticised the Manchester mayor, but Burnham’s plan for a democratic revolution is in line with the ‘radical centre’ his old boss favours – and they both want to keep Reform UK out, says Andrew Grice
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For all his faults, the PM is at least unencumbered by fringe online conversations in the way that Nigel Farage and Elon Musk are – and we will miss that when it’s gone, says Sonia Sodha
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Mandelson files: 1,504 pointless pages? |
After 83 days of waiting, the government has finally released the second tranche of files on the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador to Washington. We dissect the files, picking out the parts that do really tell us a lot - in particular about how Peter Mandelson himself operated behind the scenes.
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Mandelson files: 1,504 pointless pages? |
After 83 days of waiting, the government has finally released the second tranche of files on the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador to Washington. We dissect the files, picking out the parts that do really tell us a lot - in particular about how Peter Mandelson himself operated behind the scenes.
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What else you need to know
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- Labour will revisit its Brexit “red lines” as the government seeks to create closer ties with the European Union, a minister has suggested.
- A government minister has accused US defence secretary Pete Hegseth of “lacking in class” after he controversially used a D-Day memorial event to criticise Europe over what he called an "invasion" of migrants.
- Former US President Barack Obama’s sweary private reaction of horror at Britain’s decision to leave the EU has been disclosed for the first time.
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Andy Burnham’s fantasy economics may make Labour policies worse
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John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator
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John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator
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I wrote at the weekend about Labour’s sentimental attachment to nationalisation and its sentimental aversion to profit, which made me wonder if it was worth Tony Blair rewriting Clause IV of the party’s constitution to get rid of its commitment to “common ownership”.
It seems to me that this failure to understand wealth creation underlies the wider failure of Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, but that Andy Burnham, who wants to renationalise the water companies, will only make things worse.
Read it here.
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Brexit ‘sabotage’ has cost Britain up to £30bn every year, says David Miliband
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Brexit was an act of “sabotage” that has made Britain up to £30bn a year worse off, former foreign secretary David Miliband has claimed.
Here’s what you had to say:
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I always remember a famous story from the 1960s when Tory canvassers knocked on the door of Louis Mountbatten. To their surprise, the man himself came to the door. "I'm a Labour man myself but I believe my butler votes Tory", he told them.
Apocryphal or not, it neatly sums up the right-leaning inclination of the British 'working class'.
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Six years into their rule, 2010 to 2016, Cameron and Osbourne gave the public a chance to decide whether the UK should stay in or leave the EU in June 2016. A question that up till then played a minor role in the everyday life of most residents. Both Cameron and Osbourne supported remain.
At that point in time their policy of austerity was so unpopular that it was clear to me that the electorate, seeing chance to get even with them, would oppose anything the government advocated simply to to teach them a lesson - had they promoted leave remain would have won imho.
Most of those who voted had a very limited knowledge of the workings of the EU and the effect their votes would have. On 24 June the most asked question on the internet was 'What is the EU?'
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