Keir Starmer is using this morning’s cabinet meeting to underline the message he has been sending to more junior ministers over the past few days: he’s not going without a fight. Part of his argument is that he’s got loads to do, which must come as a surprise to anyone who read the King’s Speech.

One of the big things Starmer wants to show his party he can do is address the hot-button issue of children’s access to social media, first with his threat to tech firms yesterday that they have three months to stop children being able to send or see explicit content. 

Starmer and Burnham are both symptoms of Labour’s big problem, which is that the party really doesn’t know what it wants to do

Starmer and Burnham are both symptoms of Labour’s big problem, which is that the party really doesn’t know what it wants to do

It is striking, though, that Starmer is moving now on this when one........

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