Last night Labour didn’t even bother sending an actual Cabinet Minister to defend their draconian Online Safety Act on Newsnight. Instead, they offered Labour peer Thangam Debbonaire…
Debbonaire didn’t seem phased by the surge in VPN sign-ups or the growing number of children being pushed toward the dark web. She brushed off Zia Yusuf’s warning – that the legislation makes kids less safe – with a sarcastic swipe: “Why don’t we just let him talk.” Labour intensely relaxed about mass censorship and kids on the dark web…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”