Britain facing ‘catastrophe’ because of children being addicted to social media, peers told – as it happened

Lord Nash speaking in debate on banning social media for under-16s. Photograph: House of Lords

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Early evening summary

• Kemi Badenoch has called on Keir Starmer to “just get on” with a ban on social media for under-16s, saying delay is a dereliction of duty that is harming children’s mental health. She made her comments in a Guardian article published shortly before peers started a debate on an amendment to the children’s wellbeing and schools bill that would ban social media accounts for under-16s. The debate is still going on, but a vote is expected within the hour. You can follow the proceedings here.

• Keir Starmer has noticeably hardened his rhetoric towards Donald Trump, telling the Commons that the US president’s condemnation of the Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius was intended to weaken the UK’s resolve over Greenland.

• The world would be a “better, more secure place” if America took over Greenland, Nigel Farage said at Davos, while insisting that he still believed in the sovereignty of nation states.

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Updated at 6.51pm GMT

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Claire Fox, the former Brexit party MEP, said she thought teenagers should have acces to the internet. And she said they were clever and devious, and would be able to get round restricitons if they were imposed. She said the Nash amendment was a threat to adult civil liberties, and to freedom, and she said she did not believe a ban would have the advantages its supporters claimed.