Former health secretary says he unsuccessfully argued for tougher action when in cabinetIn his Today interview, Wes Streeting stressed that he was not just blaming governments for their failure to regulate social media companies more effectively. The firms themselves were also at fault, he said.Markets are great things. They drive innovation, creativity, new products, and many of the aspects of social media and technology more broadly have have been life changing in a positive way.But markets do not have a set of morals and values at their heart. That is where the public sphere comes in. That’s where government, and the state, has a role to play to make sure that markets are working to a set of rules that are in the interests of society as a whole. Continue reading...

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/may/26/wes-streeting-keir-starmer-social-media-ban-labour-uk-politics-live