{"id":21993,"date":"2026-02-16T11:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/starmer-says-government-remains-open-minded-about-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-uk-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:37:32","slug":"starmer-says-government-remains-open-minded-about-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-uk-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/starmer-says-government-remains-open-minded-about-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-uk-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer says government remains \u2018open-minded\u2019 about social media ban for under-16s \u2013 UK politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime minister says outcomes of consultation on social media ban should be implemented quickly as technology minister says Australia-style ban is not inevitable<\/p>\n

In his Q&A with journalists, Keir Starmer<\/strong> was also asked to respond to a report<\/a> by the BBC\u2019s James Landale saying he is looking at plans to raise defence spending to 3% of GDP by the end of this parliament. In the past Starmer has just said that he would like to do this at some point in the next parliament.<\/p>\n

In his reply, Starmer said that at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend he was arguing that the UK, and Europe as a whole, needs to \u201cstep up\u201d.<\/p>\n

We want a just and lasting peace, but that will not extinguish the Russian threat, and we need to be alert to that, because that\u2019s going to affect every single person in this room, every single person in this country, so we need to step up.<\/p>\n

That means, on defence spending, we need to go faster.<\/p>\n

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\nPrime minister says outcomes of consultation on social media ban should be implemented quickly as technology minister says Australia-style ban is not inevitable
\nIn his Q&A with journalists, Keir Starmer was also asked to respond to a report by the BBC\u2019s James Landale saying he is looking at plans to raise defence spending to 3% of GDP by the end of this parliament. In the past Starmer has just said that he would like to do this at some point in the next parliament.
\nIn his reply, Starmer said that at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend he was arguing that the UK, and Europe as a whole, needs to \u201cstep up\u201d.
\nWe want a just and lasting peace, but that will not extinguish the Russian threat, and we need to be alert to that, because that\u2019s going to affect every single person in this room, every single person in this country, so we need to step up.
\nThat means, on defence spending, we need to go faster. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime minister says outcomes of consultation on social media ban should be implemented quickly as technology minister says Australia-style ban is not inevitable In his Q&A with journalists, Keir Starmer was also asked to respond to a report by the BBC\u2019s James Landale saying he is looking at plans to raise defence spending to 3% …<\/p>\n

Starmer says government remains \u2018open-minded\u2019 about social media ban for under-16s \u2013 UK politics live<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21994,"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\/21993"}],"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=21993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}