I’ve spent the last few days composing a response to the government’s consultation on whether to introduce a statutory minimum age for sites like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. The consultation, announced on 19 January, was intended to spike the guns of Lord Nash, a Conservative peer who’d proposed an amendment to the Schools Bill banning

Former health secretary calls for tougher approach as consultation deadline looms

Age limits and changes to allegedly addictive design features could be in place by the end of the year