In The Room | Starmer bans social media while Farage starts a Substack | In The Room

This week, Keir Starmer He announced that social media was banned for those under the age of 16.

This is a very striking policy announcement. And this is a clear sign that it has enabled legacy mode. Today we ask: What will Keir Starmer’s legacy actually look like? So why are prime ministers so obsessed with their own legacies?

During the week of the announcement, Nigel Farage also stepped up his divisive rhetoric with a brand new Substack page. Their numbers on the platform already exceed Starmer’s. Helen MacNamara and Cleo Watson discuss whether Starmer’s inability to engage and win debates with fringe political leaders is giving breathing space to extremist ideas in the UK, asking: why are politicians all on Substack?

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