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Ministers have previously come under pressure in Parliament to ban children from the social media platforms deemed harmful.

Robert Kenyon is the UK Reform candidate in the upcoming Makerfield by-election. Ted Peskett News Editor-in-Chief

Social media "ranks alongside smoking" as a threat to young people's health, a report by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says. The Government's 'Growing Up In The Online World'consultation, which explored measures such as an Australia-style social media ban for minors, app curfews, and limits on addictive features, closes at the end of Tuesday. In a report submitted to the consultation, the academy warned that doctors are witnessing "a wave of radicalised children" exposed to "hateful, addictive and grossly distressing content".

The author of a review of youth unemployment suggested the current Government should rethink an uplift in the minimum wage.

The author of a review of youth unemployment suggested the current Government should rethink an uplift in the minimum wage.

The crisis of more than a million young people neither working nor learning has “no easy solutions”, a Labour former minister has warned amid fears of a lost generation without urgent change.

The Foreign Secretary described the document dump related to the peer's appointment as an ‘unedifying process'.

The Foreign Secretary described the document dump related to the peer’s appointment as an ‘unedifying process’.

Keir Starmer has insisted he has complied with requests to hand over his WhatsApp messages relating to Peter Mandelson's appointment as US

Files published on Monday showed Cabinet minister Mr McFadden saying Labour MPs were asking the wrong questions on tax and welfare.