{"id":21555,"date":"2026-01-13T14:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/keir-starmer-tells-mps-he-is-open-to-social-media-ban-for-young-people\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:37:16","slug":"keir-starmer-tells-mps-he-is-open-to-social-media-ban-for-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/keir-starmer-tells-mps-he-is-open-to-social-media-ban-for-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer tells MPs he is open to social media ban for young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM says he is alarmed at reports about children\u2019s screen time and has shifted position on Australian-style policy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/jan\/13\/uk-politics-latest-news-labour-conservatives-keir-starmer\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keir Starmer has told MPs he is open to the idea of an Australian-style ban on social media for young people after becoming concerned about the amount of time children and teenagers are spending on their phones.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister told Labour MPs on Monday evening he had become alarmed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/jan\/11\/excessive-screen-time-limits-vocabulary-of-toddlers-experts-warn\">reports about<\/a> five-year-olds spending hours in front of screens each day, as well as increasingly worried about the damage social media is doing to under-16s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/jan\/13\/keir-starmer-tells-mps-he-is-open-to-australian-style-social-media-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8eed4e8a8972ea604e34b6ab338476266c46699a\/611_82_6377_5104\/master\/6377.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5565dff63438c7aee2538d9bec0cf588\" title=\"Keir Starmer tells MPs he is open to social media ban for young people\" \/>PM says he is alarmed at reports about children\u2019s screen time and has shifted position on Australian-style policy<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nKeir Starmer has told MPs he is open to the idea of an Australian-style ban on social media for young people after becoming concerned about the amount of time children and teenagers are spending on their phones.<br \/>\nThe prime minister told Labour MPs on Monday evening he had become alarmed at reports about five-year-olds spending hours in front of screens each day, as well as increasingly worried about the damage social media is doing to under-16s. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM says he is alarmed at reports about children\u2019s screen time and has shifted position on Australian-style policy UK politics live \u2013 latest updates Keir Starmer has told MPs he is open to the idea of an Australian-style ban on social media for young people after becoming concerned about the amount of time children and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/keir-starmer-tells-mps-he-is-open-to-social-media-ban-for-young-people\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keir Starmer tells MPs he is open to social media ban for young people<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21555"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}